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Leavy, Jane.
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Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Outfielders (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography.
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Leavy, Jane.
Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Outfielders (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography.
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The big fella : Babe Ruth and the world he created / Jane Leavy.
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Leavy, Jane.
Harper Luxe, 2018.
Call #:
LP
796
.357092
R974L
Subjects
Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Outfielders (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780062860255 (large print pbk.)
Alternate title:
Babe Ruth and the world he created
Edition:
1st large print ed.
Description:
524 p. (large print) : photos ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
1927 Barnstorming Tour -- Introduction -- Prologue: June 13, 1902, St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys -- Oct. 10: Providence -- Oct. 10: Aboard the New York Central -- Oct. 11: Trenton -- Oct. 12: Cityline -- Oct. 13: Asbury Park -- Oct. 13-14: Aboard the Manhattan Limited/Lima -- Oct. 15: Kansas City, Missouri -- Oct. 16: Omaha, Nebraska -- Oct. 17: Aboard the Rock Island Line -- Oct. 18: Sioux City -- Oct. 19: Denver -- Oct. 21-22: Bay Area -- Oct. 23: San Francisco -- Oct. 25: Marysville -- Oct. 26: San Jose -- Oct. 28: San Diego -- Oct. 29: Fresno -- Oct. 30: Los Angeles.
Summary:
The definitive biography of Babe Ruth - the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." He lived in the present tense - in the camera's lens. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. He expanded notions of the possible. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace - radios, automatic clothes washers - Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh - business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit - Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom.
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