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Dorothy Helen Ruth Pirone (June 7, 1921 – May 18, 1989) was the biological daughter of the US baseball player Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings (born Juanita Grenandtz). She was adopted by Babe and his first wife Helen Woodford Ruth of Boston, Massachusetts.
Jun 12, 1988 · So who was the mother of Babe Ruth's daughter? Her name, Dorothy said, was Juanita Jennings, a California woman who had an affair with Ruth in 1920 and who later married his chum, Charlie...
Jan 7, 2019 · In a book she wrote, Dorothy revealed she discovered at age 59 in 1980 her biological mother was Juanita Jennings, a woman who had an affair with Babe in 1920. As a youth, Dorothy knew Juanita as “Aunt Nita,” a family friend.
Mar 9, 2019 · She said that in 1980, the former Juanita Jennings, a longtime friend of the Ruth family, told her two weeks before her death that she was her biological mother, having had an affair with...
Apr 12, 2018 · Juanita apparently had an affair with Ruth while he was in California during the early days of his baseball career in 1920. She became pregnant and had a baby girl at St. Vincent Hospital in...
- Ann Genader
Apr 11, 2022 · As the Hartford Courant recounted, Pirone was conceived during Ruth's extramarital affair with an also-married hand model named Juanita Jennings. However, Ruth and his absurdly tolerant first wife hid this fact from Pirone, portraying Jennings as a family friend.
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Apr 23, 2006 · “I believe Juanita Jennings was the one woman the Babe ever truly loved,” Tosetti said. Ruth and Jennings had a child, born in 1921 and named Dorothy, the only biological child of the Babe.
