Background
She wrote a memoir of her father, titled My Dad, the Babe. Dorothy was born June 7, 1921 in New York City, at Saint Vincent"s Hospital to Juanita Jennings, and was adopted by Babe and Helen Ruth.
She wrote a memoir of her father, titled My Dad, the Babe. Dorothy was born June 7, 1921 in New York City, at Saint Vincent"s Hospital to Juanita Jennings, and was adopted by Babe and Helen Ruth.
lieutenant is speculated that Helen did not know that Dorothy was the result of an extramarital affair between Babe and his girlfriend, Jennings. lieutenant is possible that when Babe Ruth learned of his mistress"s pregnancy, he convinced Helen, unaware that Babe was the father, to adopt the baby girl. Helen and Babe Ruth separated some time between 1924–1926.
Babe and Helen Ruth did not divorce because of their religious beliefs.
In January 1929, when she was 7 years old, her mother died in a house fire. She had one step-sister, as Babe had adopted Claire"s daughter Julia.
Dorothy had known Juanita growing up, but only as a friend of her father. She referred to Jennings as "Aunt Nita."
Her son, Daniel J. Sullivan Junior.
(1940 - 1974), was born in October 1940, who later had 5 children.
Dorothy"s marriage to Sullivan also produced two daughters, Genevieve and Ellen Ruth Hourigan (b 1943), before the union ended in 1945. Dorothy later married Dominick Pirone, a New York general contractor in New York City, on December 8, 1948. Three children were born of this second marriage: Donna, Richard Pirone (1950-2001), and Linda Ruth Tosetti (b 1954).
She lived in Durham, Connecticut and raised Arabian horses, and wrote My Dad, the Babe.
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.