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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 "Leavy's newest masterpiece.... A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling." --Forbes He lived in the present tense--in the camera's lens. There was no frame he couldn't or wouldn't fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace--radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers--Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh--business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit--Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. His was a life of journeys and itineraries--from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases. After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927--a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season--he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth's life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.

About the Author :
Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.

Review :
"The Last Boy is something new in the history of the histories of the Mick. It is hard fact, reported by someone greatly skilled at that craft...and presented so that the reader and not the author draws nearly all the conclusions." - The New York Times Book Review on The Last Boy "This is one of the best sports biographies I have ever read. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, it reveals with stunning insight both the talents and the demons that drove Mickey Mantle, bringing him to life as never before." - Doris Kearns Goodwin on The Last Boy "The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifully written." - Wall Street Journal on Sandy Koufax "Leavy has hit it out of the park...A lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory... a remarkably rich portrait." - Time on Sandy Koufax "Monumental.... Leavy writes lovely, lively sentences and, as in her other big baseball biographies, of Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle, coordinates her head with her heart. Her research is thorough, and she works the material hard. She knows the score. She likes her subjects sometimes despite it, or comes to like them, or to feel sympathy for them.... As Nick Carraway is to Jay Gatsby, Jane Leavy is to Babe Ruth, who represents everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. She persuaded me to cut him some slack." - National Review "Simply the best sports biography I have ever read...convincingly makes the case that Ruth put down the template for modern celebrity.... If you want to understand the Kardashians and their effect on our culture, you have to understand Babe Ruth." - The Progressive "The same insight and verve that attracted readers to Leavy's portraits of Mickey Mantle and Sandy Koufax manifest themselves here as she traces the improbable transformation of the insecure little George into the imposing Sultan of Swat, master of the diamond and unparalleled national celebrity.... An American icon brought to life." - Booklist, starred review "One rule of thumb personally adopted is I read anything Jane Leavy writes. She's that good.... Leavy is an exquisite reporter and researcher, which melds with her prose to make for a wonderful gift." - Detroit News "The Big Fella is just amazing. Filled with fabulous tales. Tell me you wouldn't have wanted to follow the Bambino around on a barnstorming tour in 1927. Now you can!" - Jayson Stark "If you think you've read enough stories about Babe Ruth to last a lifetime, think again. If you haven't yet read THE BIG FELLA, you've got some catching up to do." - Steven Goldleaf, Bill James Online "The Big Fella, beyond being the premiere biography about the King of Crash, is a book for all history buffs, not just fans of the New York Yankees, baseball, or sports in general." - Philadelphia Inquirer "What sets 'The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created' apart from earlier attempts to identify the true essence of the man is an unprecedented look back into Ruth's long-neglected childhood and a magnified focus on how his tremendous popularity helped birth the cult of personality in America." - Peter Schmuck, Baltimore Sun "Colorful.... This poignant life story reveals Babe Ruth warts and all." - The Missourian


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780062860255
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Collins
  • Edition: Large type / large print edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0062860259
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 992
  • Spine Width: 50 mm
  • Weight: 1021 gr


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