Babe Ruth: A Daughter's Portrait

Beim, George; Stevens, Julia Ruth

ISBN 10: 0878339957 / ISBN 13: 9780878339952

Published by Taylor Trade Publishing, 1998

About this Item

Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good+. Taylor Trade Publishing, 1998. Signed by Julia Ruth Stevens on blank page. First Edition. 1st Printing. 179 pages. Light general wear. The dust jacket has light foxing on the inside surface facing the book. Size: 11.3 x 8.7 x 0.7. Signed Biography 6066L.

Seller Inventory # 135901

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Babe Ruth: A Daughter's Portrait
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878339957
• ISBN 13: 9780878339952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition. 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

is a family photo album filled with over 200 new, never-before-published images of Ruth. Each photo is accompanied by a caption by Julia Ruth Stevens in which she identifies and reflects on the event.

Review

There's something about the Babe. He continues to mesmerize long after the retiring of #3, and it's his enduring familiarity that makes this spruced-up family album assembled by his daughter such alluring fun. The Bambino was certainly one of the most willingly photographed individuals of his time, but A Daughter's Portrait goes beyond the staged and hyped--though the staged and the hyped are displayed in full glory--to offer some lovely images of a man of minimal privacy just being himself: fishing and hunting with the guys, missing a putt, reading the paper, at ease with his family. Some of the photo captions suffer from saccharine overdose, and others are factually incomplete or inaccurate, but that only conspires to make this whole seductive enterprise more personal, endearing, and folksy. --Jeff Silverman