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Author: Matt Tavares Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763656461 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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Traces his mischievous childhood in Baltimore before his life-changing enrollment in Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, where a strict code of conduct and his introduction to baseball inspired his historic career.
Author: Matt Tavares Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763656461 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 41
Book Description
Traces his mischievous childhood in Baltimore before his life-changing enrollment in Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, where a strict code of conduct and his introduction to baseball inspired his historic career.
Author: Joan Holub Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101552336 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 113
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Just in time for baseball season! Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age of nineteen, he was on his way to becoming a sports legend. Babe was often out of shape and even more often out on the town, but he had a big heart and an even bigger swing! Kids will learn all about the Home Run King in this rags-to- riches sports biography. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, a true sports legend is brought to life.
Author: Frank Murphy Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0375841849 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.
Author: Guernsey Van Riper Jr. Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481425072 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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A narrative portrait of the iconic Baseball Hall of Fame inductee's childhood imagines his years spent in an orphanage and reformatory, his introduction to baseball by monks, and the influences that shaped his subsequent athletic achievements.
Author: Wilborn Hampton Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101022337 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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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, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton shares with readers The Babe was also a man of big heart, temper, and appetite.
Author: Jim Reisler Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education ISBN: 9780071432436 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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As America's pasttime was still reeling from the Black Sox scandal of 1919, Red Sox player Babe Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees for $125,000. Who could have known that this business transaction would turn the 1920 season into a magical one and send Ruth's celebrity into the stratosphere? Babe Ruth captures that era, before Ruth joined the pantheon of sports gods.
Author: Babe Ruth Publisher: Graymalkin Media ISBN: 1631683586 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 277
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They called him the Babe. The Bambino. The Sultan of Swat. And finally they called him a legend. But the greatest baseball player who ever lived was also a flesh-and-blood man, the freest spirit ever to give managers gray hairs. This is the story of the game he played and the life he lived to the hilt—told as only he could tell it. Here are the golden moments on the diamond and the unforgettable times off of it. Here are the highs, the lows, the friendships, the feuds, and the loves—in a book filled with the plain-speaking, hard-hitting style of the man who came to symbolize America's favorite game.
Author: Matt Tavares
Author: Matt Tavares
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