The Babe, A Life in Pictures

Ritter, Lawrence S. (text and captions); & Mark Rucker (picture editor)

ISBN 10: 089919768X / ISBN 13: 9780899197685

Published by Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1988

About this Item

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. 9" wide by 12.25" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The spine of the Dust Jacket has light fraying and one tiny chip. NOT price clipped (40.00). NOT a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of vintage Babe Ruth photographs. Includes a 16-page section in full-color featuring all things Ruthian -- baseball cards, uniforms and gear, magazine and book covers, advertisements and other memorabilia. A history of George Hermann "Babe" Ruth (1895 -1948), including his family and fellow players. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Appendix gives Ruth's Career Stats. Sources/bibliography. Index. Bound in the original boards, with tan cloth spine. Keywords: Babe Ruth. Baseball. New York Yankees. . First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. (vi), 282pp.

Seller Inventory # 005082

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Babe, A Life in Pictures
• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089919768X
• ISBN 13: 9780899197685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing of the First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Baseball

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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.