The Babe Book

By Ernestine Miller

Book Overview

His last game was more than seventy years ago, but Babe Ruth remains an American icon--the first superstar of sports. Named the Greatest Baseball Player of the Twentieth Century by the sports media,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740710125
• ISBN13: 9780740710124
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great

Fun to read and great pics. Too bad there was whining about the home run record for one season...face it Maris beat the Babe

For all who love the Babe

This is a wonberful book for all who are nostolgic for the time when there were genuine, larger than lfe sports heroes. This wonderful reflection on Babe Ruth includes numerous photyographs. It is not an in depth biography. Rather, it is an evocative collection of pictures and anecdotes that he;p us feel as though we were there when the Babe was in his prime. Great book!!!

The renewed examination of Babe Ruth's life and career

Baseball fans with an affection for the sports history will relish the renewed examination of Babe Ruth's life and career, which packs in almost a hundred photos to supplement anecdotes from those who knew him. Readers will find here an affectionate examination of Babe Ruth's life and times along with a fine visual coverage of baseball history.