The Great Bambino

Author : Sam Chase
Publisher : Centennial Books
ISBN 13 : 9781951274566
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Bambino written by Sam Chase and published by Centennial Books. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, The Titan of Terror...Babe Ruth was larger than life! Here is an illustrated history of baseball's most iconic figure. Try to sum up the career of baseball legend Babe Ruth in fewer than 20 words, and the first two sentences on the Hall of Fame plaque that hangs in Cooperstown does so quite succinctly: Greatest drawing card in history of baseball. Holder of many home run and other batting records.The man known as the Great Bambino, however, represented far more than just numbers. As former teammate Joe Dugan once stated, “To understand him you had to understand this: He wasn’t human.” Offering the definitive look at Ruth’s life both on and off the field, from his rough childhood through the larger-than-life persona he would eventually become, The Great Bambino is an intimate and beautifully illustrated portrait of a true American icon.

Author : Nelson Yomtov
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429662654
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bambino written by Nelson Yomtov and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In graphic novel format, follows Babe Ruth through the 1927 season and describes his attempt to break his own home run record.

Author : Dan Shaughnessy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142004766
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curse of the Bambino written by Dan Shaughnessy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boston Red Sox's loss to the New York Yankees in the 2003 playoffs has been called "the game of the century," evidence that the rivalry between the Red Sox and the Yankees was hotter than ever. In the wake of that defeat, author and Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy updated his bewitching story of the curse that laid over the Red Sox after they sold Babe Ruth to the hated Yankees in 1920. Here he sheds light on classic Sox debacles from the years before they broke the curse and finally reached the World Championship again—from Johnny Pesky's so-called hesitation throw to the horrifying dribbler that slithered between Bill Buckner's legs. Lively and filled with anecdotes, this is baseball folklore at its best.

Author : Zachary Hyman
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770496289
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bambino and Me written by Zachary Hyman and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1927, and ten-year-old George Henry Alexander is full of the joys of summer: long days, warm nights and baseball, especially the greatest player in the game: Babe Ruth--the Bambino. When George's parents surprise him with tickets to a game between his beloved Yankees and their rivals, the Boston Red Sox, he couldn't be more excited. A real baseball game, and his first chance to see his hero in the flesh! But when the big day arrives, things don't quite go according to plan. On what is supposed to be the best afternoon of his young life, George finds himself doing the one thing no true Yankees fan should ever do. He's so low, he'd rather kiss a girl! How can he face his hero when he feels like the biggest traitor in the world? In this magical story that perfectly conjures 1920s New York and the nostalgia of childhood summers, an unexpected encounter shows George the value of never giving up.

Author : Babe Ruth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball written by Babe Ruth and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Weeks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493066943
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lore of the Bambino written by Jonathan Weeks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than seventy years after his death, Babe Ruth continues to fascinate generations of fans. His exciting adventures on and off the field have become essential reading for students of baseball and pop culture. While most Ruth biographies are filled with mundane facts, Lore of the Bambino is the equivalent of a greatest hits compilation. Ruth’s extraordinary (and at times incredulous) tales carry readers on an enthralling journey through the life of the most celebrated sports figure of the twentieth century. All of the most popular anecdotes (such as the Babe’s alleged “called shot” in the 1932 World Series) are thoroughly covered along with many lesser known narratives. The book is divided into two sections. In Part One, Ruth’s life and career are recounted chronologically. Part Two contains assorted stand-alone anecdotes in shorter form. Appendices include statistics, a chronology, and salary details among other bits of pertinent information.

Author : Edward A. Bradley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492572
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Never Retreat written by Edward A. Bradley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “filibuster” often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century—invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography. Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them. “We Never Retreat” makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.

Author : Matt Tavares
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763656461
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Robert Burleigh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152045999
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
ISBN 13 : 1644571706
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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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