The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
Language: English
Published by First Harper Perennial Edition Published 2019, 2019
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.Mike's Baseball Books
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Jane Leavy has become a recognized master writing biographies on a number of baseball Icons. After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927, Babe Ruth embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours a three-week victory lap across America accompanied by Lou Gehrig. Leavy recreates that circus and, in so doing, captures the romp and pathos that defined Ruth's life and times. Has 620 pages and is good condition. I have around 200 Baseball Biographies, 100 books on Yankee Players and Teams, and more than 2,500 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
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- Title
- The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
- Author
- Leavy, Jane
- Publisher
- First Harper Perennial Edition Published 2019
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062380230
- ISBN 13
- 9780062380234
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 544 grams
- Dimensions
- 13.49 centimeters width by 20.32 centimeters height by 2.67 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- biography, New York Yankee Team and Players
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
The Boston Globe Publishers Weekly Kirkus Newsweek The Philadelphia Inquirer The Progressive
Winner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award Longlisted for Spitball Magazine's Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Finalist for the NBCC Award for Biography
"Leavy's newest masterpiece.... A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling." --Forbes
He lived in the present tense--in the camera's lens. There was no frame he couldn't or wouldn't fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace--radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers--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.
His was a life of journeys and itineraries--from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases.
After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927--a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season--he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth's life and times.
Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.
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About the Author
Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.
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Mike's Baseball Books
Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 18, 2001
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