The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe RuthNational Bestseller He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. Babe Ruth was more than baseball’s original superstar. For eighty-five years, he has remained the sport’s reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century . . . more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? In The Big Bam, Leigh Montville, whose recent New York Times bestselling biography of Ted Williams garnered glowing reviews and offered an exceptionally intimate look at Williams’s life, brings his trademark touch to this groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the Babe. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in the history of organized sports. Based on newly discovered documents and interviews—including pages from Ruth’s personal scrapbooks —The Big Bam traces Ruth’s life from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his brash entrance into professional baseball, from Boston to New York and into the record books as the world’s most explosive slugger and cultural luminary. |
Contents
Section 16 | 214 |
Section 17 | 224 |
Section 18 | 240 |
Section 19 | 252 |
Section 20 | 267 |
Section 21 | 281 |
Section 22 | 297 |
Section 23 | 314 |
Section 9 | 106 |
Section 10 | 127 |
Section 11 | 142 |
Section 12 | 159 |
Section 13 | 172 |
Section 14 | 185 |
Section 15 | 198 |
Section 24 | 330 |
Section 25 | 347 |
Section 26 | 357 |
Section 27 | 367 |
Section 28 | 369 |
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