Dorothy Ruth
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Dorothy Helen Ruth Pirone was the daughter of Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings.[1] Dorothy was born June 7, 1921 in New York, NY at St. Vincent's Hospital, and lived with Babe and his first wife Helen.[2] She married Daniel J. Sullivan, a Brooklyn employee of the Railway Express Agency, on January 7, 1940. She had a son, Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr., (Babe's first grandchild) in October 1940, and later had 5 other children. Dorothy's marriage to Sullivan also produced two daughters, Genevieve and Ellen, before the union ended in 1945. Dorothy later married Dominick Pirone, a New York contractor, in New York City, on December 8, 1948. Three children were born of this second marriage, Donna, Richard, and Linda Ruth Tosetti. She lived in Durham, CT and raised Arabian horses, [1] and wrote My Dad, the Babe.[2] She died on May 18, 1989 at the age of 68 in Durham, CT.[3] She was survived by four daughters, a son and 12 grandchildren.
Prior to her death in 1989, she was a joint plaintiff along with the Babe Ruth League in a trademark dispute with Macmillan Incorporated over use of the Babe Ruth likeness[4].
[edit] References
- ^ The Dead Ball Era - Obituary of Dorothy Ruth
- ^ Pirone, Dorothy Ruth.; Chris Martens (1988). My Dad, the Babe : growing up with an American hero. Boston :: Quinlan Press, c1988., 250 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 24 cm.. ISBN 1557700311. OCLC 17652057.
- ^ The New York Times, May 20, 1989. Dorothy R. Pirone, 68, Babe Ruth's Daughter Obituary.
- ^ http://www.markroesler.com/pdf/caselaw/Pirone%20v.%20Macmillan.pdf
