Babe Ruth was essentially an orphan. His parents sent him to a Baltimore reform school at seven because they could not or would not raise him. A Xaverian Brother at the school taught him baseball, and the incorrigible kid from the waterfront became the most transformative athlete in American sports history — a man who hit home runs in numbers nobody thought possible and single-handedly saved baseball after the Black Sox scandal.

This episode traces Ruth from the reformatory through his pitching career with the Red Sox, the sale to the Yankees that created the Curse of the Bambino, the 1927 season, and the larger-than-life appetites that made him as famous off the field as on it.

• Ruth's abandoned childhood and the reform school where he discovered baseball
• His dominant pitching career with the Red Sox and the sale that cur ...