Babe Ruth: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters) - Hardcover

Stewart, Wayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313335966 ISBN 13: 9780313335969

Verlag: Greenwood, 2006

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This brief but readable biography tells the story of the most recognized figure in baseball-Babe Ruth. Besides vividly describing the highlights of Ruth's career, author Wayne Stewart examines the unprecedented impact Ruth had on the nature and future of the game. Ruth's ability to hit the long ball and the flamboyance of his off-field persona infused the game with a new excitement that rescued baseball from the negative effects of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Making extensive use of interviews conducted by the author with members of Ruth's family and with players who knew Ruth, this biography is an engaging exploration of how Ruth helped shape modern baseball.

Babe Ruth is the most recognized figure in baseball and a true American icon. In this brief but readable biography, author Wayne Stewart engagingly describes the highlights of Ruth's career and deftly examines the reasons for the unprecedented impact Ruth had on the game. Ruth's ability to hit the long ball and the flamboyance of his off-field persona infused the game with a new excitement that rescued baseball from the negative effects of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. The author draws new insights into Ruth's life and career through interviews he conducted with members of Ruth's family and with other baseball players who knew him.

Readers are also provided with a quick reference chronology to Ruth's career, a bibliography of important print and non-print information resources on Ruth, a statistical appendix summarizing Ruth's on-field production by season, and a discussion of how Ruth has been depicted in books, movies, plays, and other media since his death. This biography will both explain and satisfy the continuing curiosity about Ruth among young basbeball fans who never had the opportunity to see him play.

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Wayne Stewart was born in Pittsburgh in 1951. He grew up in Donora, Pennsylvania, the same town that produced two Hall of Fame baseball players in Stan "The Man" Musial and Ken Griffey, Jr. In fact, Stewart was a classmate and baseball teammate of Ken Griffey, Sr. at Donora High School (Class of 1969). He received his B.S. in Education at California State College (Pa.) and began a 31-year (secondary education) teaching career in Lorain, Ohio, in 1974. He began his sports writing career in 1978 with a story for Baseball Digest. He continued writing for many national magazines, becoming an author of almost 40 books 12 years later. His first book was Baseball Oddities. He has also written biographies of Musial, Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez, and he co-wrote Hall of Famer Raymond Berry's autobiography, All the Moves I Had. He has written many books on trivia such as The New Book of Baseball Trivia. One of his favorite books, along with his Stan the Man and America's Football Factory (about star NFL players such as Joe Montana and Dan Marino out of western Pennsylvania}, is Wits, Flakes, and Clowns on baseball's most colorful characters of all-time. Another nostalgic favorite: Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years. Some of his interactive quiz-like books include You're the Umpire, and Name That Ballplayer.He is married and is the father of two sons and has one grandson. He retired from teaching in 2004 and resides in Amherst, Ohio, near Cleveland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0313335966
• ISBN 13: 9780313335969
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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