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.

Becoming Babe Ruth
Becoming Babe Ruth

Author: Matt Tavares

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1536245836

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“This exceptionally engaging chronicle recounts Ruth’s amazing rags-to-riches story. . . . Equally important, the art captures Ruth’s irrepressible personality and joy in playing baseball.” — Booklist (starred review) Before he becomes known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and has a knack for getting into trouble. But when he turns seven, his father takes him to Saint Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, and his life is changed. Here, under the watchful eye of Brother Matthias, George evolves as an athlete and a man. With vivid illustrations and clear affection for his subject, Matt Tavares sheds light on an icon who learned early that life is what you make of it — and sends home a message about honoring the place you come from. Back matter includes an author’s note, Babe Ruth’s career statistics, and a bibliography.

Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth

Author: Wayne Stewart

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2006-07-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313335966

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A biography of legendary baseball player for the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth, that chronicles his life, early career, baseball record, and struggle with throat cancer.

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.

Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth

Author: Guernsey Van Riper Jr.

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1481425072

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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.

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.

Breaking Babe Ruth
Breaking Babe Ruth

Author: Edmund F. Wehrle

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0826274099

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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.

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.

Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse (Totally True Adventures)
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse (Totally True Adventures)

Author: David A. Kelly

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010-04-14

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0307477851

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Before 1918, the Boston Red Sox were unstoppable. They won World Series after World Series, thanks in part to their charismatic pitcher-slugger Babe Ruth. But some people on the Red Sox felt the Babe was more trouble than he was worth, and he was traded away to one of the worst teams in baseball, the New York Yankees. From then on, the Yankees became a golden team. And the Red Sox? For over 80 years, they just couldn’t win another World Series. Then, in 2004, along came a scruffy, scrappy Red Sox team. Could they break Babe Ruth’s curse and win it all?