Breaking Babe Ruth
Baseball''s Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
Published on 31. May 2018
288 pages
978-0-8262-7409-0 (ISBN)
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Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball's draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth's immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness and potential to overturn the status quo presented a threat. After a decades-long campaign waged by baseball to contain and discredit him, the Babe, frustrated and struggling with injuries and illness, grew more acquiescent, but the image of Ruth that baseball perpetuated still informs how many people remember Babe Ruth to this day. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE. BASEBALL'S SEARCH FOR ORDER
- TWO. FRENZY!
- THREE. CHALLENGE TO AUTHORITY, PART I
- FOUR. "A REMARKABLE CHANGE IN THE KING OF SWAT": COMEBACK I
- FIVE. CHALLENGE TO AUTHORITY, PART II
- SIX. "IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF PHYSICAL CONDITION": COMEBACK II
- SEVEN. TRIUMPH
- EIGHT. "FAIR ENOUGH IN TIMES LIKE THESE"
- NINE. REMOVING RUTH
- TEN. "A WELL-PAID SLAVE IS NONETHELESS A SLAVE"
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
