2025 Investitures of Certified SOBs 

Here are the 2025 investitures, in the order they were earned:
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“King Pest”

Mary M. Alcaro - March 15, 2025

King Pest is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which two drunken sailors enter a strange house

during a plague in London. There, they encounter a bizarre court led by King Pest and his

grotesque entourage, resulting in strange and darkly funny events.

Strange has never been used to describe Mary before, but darkly funny is appropriate for her.

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“Joan Jett”

P. J. Sullivan – March 15, 2025

The Godmother of Punk spent her teenage years growing up in Maryland and took her first guitar lessons here. In 1981, she formed the group, The Blackhearts, and released the album I Love Rock and Roll which topped international charts for several weeks. P.J. has been known to rock out on more

than one occasion.

 

“Babe Ruth”

Bruce Harris – September 27, 2025

 

The future “Sultan of Swat” was born in Baltimore, and be the time he was six years old, his father was operating  a saloon at what is now, today, just behind the current second base at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Being labeled as “incorrigible,” Ruth was sent away to the St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys in 1902. By  1914, Ruth was pitching for the International League Orioles, before his contract was sold to the Major League’s Boston Red Sox, where he played 5 years before being sold to the New York Yankees for $100,000. During his major league career, Ruth hit 714 home runs.

 

“Annie Goodrich Ellsworth”

Liane Luini – September 27, 2025

 

 “What hath God wrought!” No. that is not what Liane said when she first attended one of our meetings. When Samuel F. Morse sent that first message to test the power of the telegraph from the U.S. Capitol  to the B&O Roundhouse in Baltimore, it was written by Ellsworth, the daughter of one of Morse’s benefactors. Liane adds, where would Holmes have been without the telegraph!