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The big fella Babe Ruth and the world he created

A portrait of Babe Ruth and his partnership with business manager Christy Walsh traces how their strategies, achievements and notoriety established a blueprint for modern athletic stardom.

Main Author: Leavy, Jane (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Ruth, Babe, > 1895-1948.
Outfielders (Baseball) > United States > Biography.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Summary: A portrait of Babe Ruth and his partnership with business manager Christy Walsh traces how their strategies, achievements and notoriety established a blueprint for modern athletic stardom.
Physical Description: xxx, 620 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 582-591) and index.
ISBN: 9780062380227
0062380222
Author Notes: Jane Leavy is an American writer who grew up on Long Island, New York. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Early in her career she was staff writer for womenSports and Self magazines. From 1979-1988 she worked for the Washington Post covering sports, and later the style section which included sports, politics, and pop culture. Her writing has also been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and other prominent publications.

Her books include Squeeze Play: A Novel, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, and The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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