Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star (Sports and American Culture) - Hardcover

Wehrle, Edmund F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826221602 ISBN 13: 9780826221605

Verlag: University of Missouri Press, 2018

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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.

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Edmund F. Wehrle is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Missouri Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826221602
• ISBN 13: 9780826221605
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
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