Babe Ruth is Coming to Your Town!: Now With Illustrations. All 200+ postseason games in the United States and Canada. - Softcover

Barthel, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1730743722 ISBN 13: 9781730743726

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

This book rediscovers all the 200+ postseason games Babe Ruth played from 1914-1935 in the continental United States and Canada. Anywhere the money offered satisfied Ruth, he would go. It made no difference if the place was Oil City or Sleepy Eye or Pratt--or Denver of Seattle or Kansas City. The extensive research using local newspapers at each stop show Ruth to be an enthusiastic showman, including stealing bases during the games and giving exhibitions before. He accepted the hospitality in towns by going to dances, eating dinner at the homes of local people. This story has never been told before. in all of the Ruth books before or now in 2018. My other Ruth book, Babe Ruth and the Creation of the Celebrity Athlete, looks at a few barnstorming games, but examines Ruth as brand, while dealing with Ruth as a commodity to be sold to the public.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1730743722
• ISBN 13: 9781730743726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200