The Babe: A Life in Pictures

Lawrence S. Ritter and Mark Rucker

ISBN 10: 089919768X / ISBN 13: 9780899197685

Published by Ticknor and Fields, New York, 1988

About this Item

1st printing. Bumping at top and bottom of dustjacket spine, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy sans flecks, tears, stains, other markings, and discoloration. "The Bambino.the Sultan of Swat.but finally, and forever, he was THE BABE. Here, in a remarkable wedding of words and pictures, is the larger-than-life Gerorge Herman "Babe" Ruth, "the greatest baseball player of all time." PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in archival black & white and full color photography (many fulll page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "In the crisp, evocative prose of Lawrence Ritter and in Mark Rucker''s glorious selection of rare photographs, the rollicking golden age of the Babe comes strikingly to life. There was only one of him, and he lives again in these pages. 282 pages. NOTE: Due to the oversize and heavy weight of the book significant additional shipping cost will be requested/required for OUT-OF-U.S. shipment in accordance wtih country of destination. GP3.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Babe: A Life in Pictures
• Publisher: Ticknor and Fields, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089919768X
• ISBN 13: 9780899197685
• Binding: Cloth Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Text and photographs highlight the astonishing career of baseball's legendary "Babe" Ruth, from his awakening talent at a Baltimore boys' school to his tenure with the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees

Review

He was a big man, and The Babe is a big book--a four-bag celebration of the Bambino, the greatest baseball legend of them all. Lawrence S. Ritter, author of The Glory of Their Times, the classic oral history of America's national pastime in the first decades of the 20th century, weaves together a workmanlike, often elegiac, narrative of Babe Ruth's life and career. But it is the all-star collection of photos--of the Babe in action, the Babe just hanging around being the Babe, and rare Ruth collectibles--that sends this volume where the Babe used to send high fastballs: out of the park. Hank Aaron, who sent a few out himself, pens a warm introduction to the idol whose career home-run record he ultimately surpassed.