Who Was Babe Ruth?

Who Was Babe Ruth?

Author: Joan Holub

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1101552336

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Just in time for baseball season! Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age of nineteen, he was on his way to becoming a sports legend. Babe was often out of shape and even more often out on the town, but he had a big heart and an even bigger swing! Kids will learn all about the Home Run King in this rags-to- riches sports biography. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, a true sports legend is brought to life.


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Download or read book Who Was Babe Ruth? written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for baseball season! Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age of nineteen, he was on his way to becoming a sports legend. Babe was often out of shape and even more often out on the town, but he had a big heart and an even bigger swing! Kids will learn all about the Home Run King in this rags-to- riches sports biography. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, a true sports legend is brought to life.


Becoming Babe Ruth

Becoming Babe Ruth

Author: Matt Tavares

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0763656461

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Traces his mischievous childhood in Baltimore before his life-changing enrollment in Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, where a strict code of conduct and his introduction to baseball inspired his historic career.


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Download or read book Becoming Babe Ruth written by Matt Tavares and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces his mischievous childhood in Baltimore before his life-changing enrollment in Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, where a strict code of conduct and his introduction to baseball inspired his historic career.


Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

Author: Babe Ruth

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Author: Wilborn Hampton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-03-19

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1101022337

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Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family in Baltimore, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, where he learned how to play baseball. Initially a talented southpaw, the Babe went on to shatter every home-run record on the books?and when fewer games were played in a season and a heavier ball was used. In this engaging and fast-paced biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton shares with readers The Babe was also a man of big heart, temper, and appetite.


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Download or read book Babe Ruth written by Wilborn Hampton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family in Baltimore, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, where he learned how to play baseball. Initially a talented southpaw, the Babe went on to shatter every home-run record on the books?and when fewer games were played in a season and a heavier ball was used. In this engaging and fast-paced biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton shares with readers The Babe was also a man of big heart, temper, and appetite.


The Babe Ruth Deception (A Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery, Book 3)

The Babe Ruth Deception (A Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery, Book 3)

Author: David O. Stewart

Publisher: ePublishing Works!

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1644571706

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A Country Doctor and Ex-Ballplayer Save "The Bambino" from Thugs, the Baseball Commissioner, and Himself in the Historical Fiction Novel, The Babe Ruth Conspiracy, from Author David O. Stewart --New York City, 1920-21-- In 1920, Babe Ruth--larger than life on the ball field and off--is enjoying a record-breaking season in his first year as a New York Yankee when his 1918 World Series win falls under suspicion of being "fixed." Then rumors start that his silent movie, Headin' Home, was bankrolled by the top aide to gambling kingpin, Arnold Rothstein. Ruth turns to Speed Cook--a professional ballplayer before the game was segregated and who now promotes Negro baseball--for help. If anyone knows the dirty underbelly of America's favorite pastime, it's Cook. Cook enlists the help of a long-time friend, Dr. Jamie Fraser, whose new wife, Eliza, coproduced the Babe's silent film. While Cook, Fraser, and Eliza dig for the truth, protecting the oftentimes-reckless Ruth from thugs and the new baseball commissioner proves even more dangerous when they come face-to-face with hidden power-hitters who are playing for keeps. Publisher's Note: The Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery Series will be enjoyed by fans of American history and period mystery novels. Free of graphic sex and with some mild profanity, this series can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. "Within these pages, he ushers us into the randy, gritty, wanton world of Babe Ruth, just arrived in New York from Boston, where he would power the Yankees—hell, the whole damn city—for the next decade. It is a world filled with molls and toughs, crooked pols and bootleggers, gamblers and righteous cops, not to mention Stewart’s beloved characters, Speed Cook, the wise head and former Negro Leaguer, and Dr. Jamie Fraser, who have teamed up before in previous fictions. The texture of the city is rendered with precision and believability. When Stewart describes the new impediment at the corner of 42nd and Fifth Avenue, the city’s first traffic tower, a reader can see the snarl of horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, pedestrians and oh so many automobiles—“machines” in the argot of the Twenties--clogging the street. Even the Babe had to stop for that. The book is full of such knowing details like the Thomas splint, an invention of World War I medicine, that saves Jamie Fraser’s daughter from losing her leg. Larger-than-life Ruth is made palpable through a mosaic of small but unassailable images. Ruth, resplendent in a red satin dressing gown worn over a pair of green and white diamond pajamas, earns “a low whistle” from Cook when he is admitted to the Babe’s sumptuous apartment in the Ansonia Hotel. It earns something more important from the reader: a belief in narrative plausibility and in the characters that inhabit it. So, when Stewart writes of the Babe that getting angry at him was a waste of time, “like losing your temper at a thunderstorm,” you know he knows what he’s talking about. The book is grand. Just like the Babe." ~Jane Leavy, Author of The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created The Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery Series The Lincoln Deception The Paris Deception The Babe Ruth Deception


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Download or read book The Babe Ruth Deception (A Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery, Book 3) written by David O. Stewart and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Country Doctor and Ex-Ballplayer Save "The Bambino" from Thugs, the Baseball Commissioner, and Himself in the Historical Fiction Novel, The Babe Ruth Conspiracy, from Author David O. Stewart --New York City, 1920-21-- In 1920, Babe Ruth--larger than life on the ball field and off--is enjoying a record-breaking season in his first year as a New York Yankee when his 1918 World Series win falls under suspicion of being "fixed." Then rumors start that his silent movie, Headin' Home, was bankrolled by the top aide to gambling kingpin, Arnold Rothstein. Ruth turns to Speed Cook--a professional ballplayer before the game was segregated and who now promotes Negro baseball--for help. If anyone knows the dirty underbelly of America's favorite pastime, it's Cook. Cook enlists the help of a long-time friend, Dr. Jamie Fraser, whose new wife, Eliza, coproduced the Babe's silent film. While Cook, Fraser, and Eliza dig for the truth, protecting the oftentimes-reckless Ruth from thugs and the new baseball commissioner proves even more dangerous when they come face-to-face with hidden power-hitters who are playing for keeps. Publisher's Note: The Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery Series will be enjoyed by fans of American history and period mystery novels. Free of graphic sex and with some mild profanity, this series can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. "Within these pages, he ushers us into the randy, gritty, wanton world of Babe Ruth, just arrived in New York from Boston, where he would power the Yankees—hell, the whole damn city—for the next decade. It is a world filled with molls and toughs, crooked pols and bootleggers, gamblers and righteous cops, not to mention Stewart’s beloved characters, Speed Cook, the wise head and former Negro Leaguer, and Dr. Jamie Fraser, who have teamed up before in previous fictions. The texture of the city is rendered with precision and believability. When Stewart describes the new impediment at the corner of 42nd and Fifth Avenue, the city’s first traffic tower, a reader can see the snarl of horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, pedestrians and oh so many automobiles—“machines” in the argot of the Twenties--clogging the street. Even the Babe had to stop for that. The book is full of such knowing details like the Thomas splint, an invention of World War I medicine, that saves Jamie Fraser’s daughter from losing her leg. Larger-than-life Ruth is made palpable through a mosaic of small but unassailable images. Ruth, resplendent in a red satin dressing gown worn over a pair of green and white diamond pajamas, earns “a low whistle” from Cook when he is admitted to the Babe’s sumptuous apartment in the Ansonia Hotel. It earns something more important from the reader: a belief in narrative plausibility and in the characters that inhabit it. So, when Stewart writes of the Babe that getting angry at him was a waste of time, “like losing your temper at a thunderstorm,” you know he knows what he’s talking about. The book is grand. Just like the Babe." ~Jane Leavy, Author of The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created The Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery Series The Lincoln Deception The Paris Deception The Babe Ruth Deception


The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs

The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs

Author: Bill Jenkinson

Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published: 2007-02-09

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruth's amazing batting power, sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe, one of the country's most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruth's 1921 season, in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today's ballparks and under today's rules. Yet, 1921 is just tip of the iceberg, for Jenkinson's research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history, and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.


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Download or read book The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs written by Bill Jenkinson and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruth's amazing batting power, sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe, one of the country's most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruth's 1921 season, in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today's ballparks and under today's rules. Yet, 1921 is just tip of the iceberg, for Jenkinson's research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history, and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.


Home Run

Home Run

Author: Robert Burleigh

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780152045999

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A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.


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Download or read book Home Run written by Robert Burleigh and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.


Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Author: Guernsey Van Riper Jr.

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1481425099

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A narrative portrait of the iconic Baseball Hall of Fame inductee's childhood imagines his years spent in an orphanage and reformatory, his introduction to baseball by monks, and the influences that shaped his subsequent athletic achievements.


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Download or read book Babe Ruth written by Guernsey Van Riper Jr. and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative portrait of the iconic Baseball Hall of Fame inductee's childhood imagines his years spent in an orphanage and reformatory, his introduction to baseball by monks, and the influences that shaped his subsequent athletic achievements.


Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Author: Norman L. Macht

Publisher: Facts On File

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780791011898

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Traces the story of baseball great, Babe Ruth.


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Download or read book Babe Ruth written by Norman L. Macht and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of baseball great, Babe Ruth.


Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!

Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!

Author: Frank Murphy

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2008-02-26

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0375841849

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All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.


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Download or read book Babe Ruth Saves Baseball! written by Frank Murphy and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.