Babe Ruth
Published on 19. March 2009
208 pages
978-1-101-02233-7 (ISBN)
Description
Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Babe Ruth in this captivating entry in the Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.
Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family that lived above a saloon on the Baltimore waterfront, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, and it was there he learned how to play baseball. He started out as a an ace southpaw pitcher, but it was with his mighty swing of the bat that he achieved his greatness, shattering every home-run record on the books in a legendary twenty-two-year career.
In this engaging and fast-paced Up Close biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton tells how Babe Ruth-a man of gargantuan appetites, a fiery temper, and a generous heart-lived a life as colorful off the field as on.
Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family that lived above a saloon on the Baltimore waterfront, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, and it was there he learned how to play baseball. He started out as a an ace southpaw pitcher, but it was with his mighty swing of the bat that he achieved his greatness, shattering every home-run record on the books in a legendary twenty-two-year career.
In this engaging and fast-paced Up Close biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton tells how Babe Ruth-a man of gargantuan appetites, a fiery temper, and a generous heart-lived a life as colorful off the field as on.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Sixth Grade to Ninth Grade
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-101-02233-7 (9781101022337)
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Wilborn Hampton
Babe Ruth
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03/2009
Viking Press Inc
€35.63
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Person
Wilborn Hampton has been an editor and book and theater critic for the New York Times. He is also the award-winning author of Up Close: Elvis Presley (Viking) and Kennedy Assassinated!. He lives in New York City.
