jjares reviewed Babe Ruth: The Life and Legacy of Major League Baseball?s Most Famous Player on + 3275 more book reviews
Frankly, I know just about zip about sports, but Babe Ruth is someone I've always heard about and wanted to read his biography. This summary met my needs exactly; a fascinating story told in just a few pages. I had no idea what a phenomenon the man was. Because his father didn't think having him around the saloon he owned was good for the boy, he put him in a Catholic boarding school for 12 years.
I learned so many things about Babe Ruth -- that he was a southpaw (like me) in an era when/where left-handers were not notable in baseball; that he played so many positions over his career (I didn't know that happened), and that he was credited with paying for Yankee Stadium ('The House that Babe Built'). He was also one of the first baseball players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
Charles Rivers Editors also explores the seamier sides of Ruth's life; his legendary drinking, partying, and serial womanizing. For the sports fan, this book offers the Babe's hitting and pitching stats, as well as the awards he earned over his career.
In the "it's a small world" category, Babe met George Herbert Walker Bush, when he went to Yale University to present his autobiography papers to their library. On hand were the members of Yale's baseball team and they got to shake hands with the man.
Even for a non-sports fan like me, this was a rousing and fascinating look into the history of one of the most famous men in baseball history. As the book says, Babe espoused the 1920s and was the most famous symbol of the Roaring Twenties.
I learned so many things about Babe Ruth -- that he was a southpaw (like me) in an era when/where left-handers were not notable in baseball; that he played so many positions over his career (I didn't know that happened), and that he was credited with paying for Yankee Stadium ('The House that Babe Built'). He was also one of the first baseball players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
Charles Rivers Editors also explores the seamier sides of Ruth's life; his legendary drinking, partying, and serial womanizing. For the sports fan, this book offers the Babe's hitting and pitching stats, as well as the awards he earned over his career.
In the "it's a small world" category, Babe met George Herbert Walker Bush, when he went to Yale University to present his autobiography papers to their library. On hand were the members of Yale's baseball team and they got to shake hands with the man.
Even for a non-sports fan like me, this was a rousing and fascinating look into the history of one of the most famous men in baseball history. As the book says, Babe espoused the 1920s and was the most famous symbol of the Roaring Twenties.
