this film which purport to chronicle the childhood of the babe be almost entirely a fabrication . he do not grow up in some small town . he grow up near the waterfront dock of baltimore and md for the first few year of his life where his father own and run a saloon that cater to a very rough crowd . young george be largely unsupervised most of the time and be continually get into one scrape or another . a a result george sr have him enrol in the st. mary industrial school for boy and pretty much stay out of young george life from then on . i be sure this film version make for good publicity for the up and come babe as well a for the yankee . colonel ruppert be very mindful of his team public image and make a film about the real version of babe young life at that time would have have a lot of negative consequence .