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Mero has been making this claim for a while, including on his show “Desus and Mero,” back in 2017: For years, many speculated that Ruth was at least partly Black, even during his time as a player, where according to some accounts he faced racist taunts over his appearance. But we know that nothing definitive has emerged to support these claims. What we do know is that Ruth’s family was made up primarily of ethnic Germans. According to a biography of Ruth, “The Life that Ruth Built,” by Marshall Smelser, a baseball scholar, the Ruths were of German descent: The name Ruth may be from the low-German common noun Rut, meaning “root” in English. Or it may be an Americanized Rilthe, which means “wand” or “rod” and would be a good word in Germany for “ball bat.” Whatever it means, it is a German family name. The present Ruth family believes George Ruth’s paternal grandfather was Peter Ruth, born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1801, who married Kaziah Reager,

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