The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created - Jane Leavy

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From award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Leavy comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed the model for modern celebrity.ity. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed the model for modern celebrity.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe Publishers Weekly Kirkus Newsweek The Philadelphia Inquirer The ProgressiveWinner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award Longlisted for Spitball Magazine\'s Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Finalist for the NBCC Award for BiographyLeavy\'s newest masterpiece.... A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling. --ForbesHe lived in the present tense--in the camera\'s lens. There was no frame he couldn\'t or wouldn\'t fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace--radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers--Babe Ruth made impossible events happen. Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh--business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit--Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom.His was a life of journeys and itineraries--from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases.After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927--a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season--he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across Amer