Babe Ruth #3

Signed with the Baltimore Orioles, then a Minor League team in the International League, in 1914... made his first appearance and homered in an inter-squad game on March 7, 1914... the Orioles sold his contract to the Boston Red Sox on July 4, 1914 for somewhere between $8,500 and $25,000... Ruth was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds but Boston was instead able to reassign him to the International League's Providence Grays after Red Sox owner Joseph Lannin purchased the team on July 30, 1914, with the hopes Ruth might help the Grays win the International League championship... Ruth joined Providence on Aug. 18, 1914 and played for manager "Wild Bill" Donovan, who helped develop Ruth into a pitcher... pitched a one-hitter at Toronto on Sept. 5, 1914, the same game in which he hit his first (and only) Minor League home run, off Ellis Johnson... led Providence to a first-place finish... was called up to the Majors on Oct. 2, 1914 by Boston and got his first Major League hit that day against the Yankees... went 23-8 in the Minors for Baltimore and Providence during the 1914 season... attended his first Major League Spring Training camp in Hot Springs, Arkansas in March 1915 and made the big league roster before going on to finish 18-8 as a pitcher for the Red Sox that season, helping Boston to the AL pennant.