Babe Ruth

by Wilborn Hampton and Ana Huang

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670063053
• ISBN13: 9780670063055
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher