The Big Fella Babe Ruth and the World He Created

Jane Leavy

eBook - 2018

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." —ForbesHe 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... more