Signed by both the Author and Illustrator on title page. First Edition. NF/NF. Hardcover, pictorial boards, DJ, quarto size, unpaginated, faint edgewear, else a beautiful copy, very crisp and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth
Publisher: Silver Whistle, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0152009701
ISBN 13: 9780152009700
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Wimmer, Mike
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author and Illustrat

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Synopsis

Like most boys, he spent his summers playing ball on a dirt lot, but George Herman Ruth, Jr. followed his dreams to become a legend. He is the Babe—Babe Ruth—and baseball is his game.

Powerful oil paintings and spare, dramatic text draw readers into the mind of this larger-than-life sports hero. Reproductions of vintage-style baseball cards throughout the book detail Babe Ruth's career highlights.

Home Run is a compelling portrait of a man, and of a time when baseball was truly America's game.

About the Author

Robert Burleigh is a longtime baseball fan and the author of many books for children. His previous collaboration with Mike Wimmer, Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh, received the Orbis Pictus Award for the best nonfiction book of the year. His book Hoops (Silver Whistle, 1997), illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson, was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Booklist Editors' Choice. Mr. Burleigh lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Mike Wimmer is the illustrator of Train Song by Diane Siebert, Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz, All the Places to Love by Patricia Machlachlan, and Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh, which received the Orbis Pictus Award for the best nonfiction book of the year. The Chicago Sun-Times has described his artwork as "reminiscent of some of Norman Rockwell's best." Mr. Wimmer lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

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