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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the legendary slugger draws on interviews, recently discovered documents, and Ruth's personal scrapbooks to trace his life from his childhood in an orphanage to his rise to the heights of major league baseball.
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 926 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"He 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,...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and the true meaning of friendship.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game, becoming the first professional female pitcher in baseball history.
11) The Babe and I
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
Picture book
Language
English
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Great Depresion by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty true stories of athletes--mostly admirable, occasionally quirky--whose physical accomplishments create a world of thrills and spills.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[Wonderbook edition].
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (208 pages) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker that his family sent him to reform school. Race-car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her "girls cant drive." And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play. Kid Athletes tells all of their...