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    Babe Ruth

    Part of Up Close

    Author Wilborn Hampton
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    Penguin Young Readers | Viking Books for Young Readers
    On sale Mar 19, 2009 | 208 Pages | 9781101022337
    Grade 7 & Up
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    Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Babe Ruth in this captivating entry in the Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.

    Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family that lived above a saloon on the Baltimore waterfront, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, and it was there he learned how to play baseball. He started out as a an ace southpaw pitcher, but it was with his mighty swing of the bat that he achieved his greatness, shattering every home-run record on the books in a legendary twenty-two-year career.

    In this engaging and fast-paced Up Close biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton tells how Babe Ruth—a man of gargantuan appetites, a fiery temper, and a generous heart—lived a life as colorful off the field as on.
    Wilborn Hampton has been an editor and book and theater critic for the New York Times. He is also the award-winning author of Up Close: Elvis Presley (Viking) and Kennedy Assassinated!. He lives in New York City. View titles by Wilborn Hampton

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    Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Babe Ruth in this captivating entry in the Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.

    Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family that lived above a saloon on the Baltimore waterfront, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, and it was there he learned how to play baseball. He started out as a an ace southpaw pitcher, but it was with his mighty swing of the bat that he achieved his greatness, shattering every home-run record on the books in a legendary twenty-two-year career.

    In this engaging and fast-paced Up Close biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton tells how Babe Ruth—a man of gargantuan appetites, a fiery temper, and a generous heart—lived a life as colorful off the field as on.

    Author

    Wilborn Hampton has been an editor and book and theater critic for the New York Times. He is also the award-winning author of Up Close: Elvis Presley (Viking) and Kennedy Assassinated!. He lives in New York City. View titles by Wilborn Hampton

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