Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!

Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!
Author: Frank Murphy
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2008-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0375841849

All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.

Babe Ruth and the Ice Cream Mess

Babe Ruth and the Ice Cream Mess
Author: Dan Gutman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 068985529X

Seven-year-old George "Babe" Ruth (who would grow up to become a baseball legend) steals a dollar from his father's saloon to treat his friends to ice cream. Includes timeline.

Saving Babe Ruth

Saving Babe Ruth
Author: Tom Swyers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781941440001

Based on a true story, the Town of Indigo Valley is full of mystery. It s passionate about its sports and about keeping its secrets. When washed-out lawyer and Civil War buff David Thompson volunteers to serve as commissioner for the town's waning Babe Ruth recreational baseball league, he has no idea what he's getting into. He finds himself confronted by people leading double lives. They want David out of the way and they'll go after him and his family if that's what it takes. Rob Barkus is one of them. Backed by the high school baseball program, travel league promoter Barkus is crushing the Babe Ruth league by luring the town's best players to his high-priced summer teams with promises of scholarships. If this continues, there won t be enough players for the Babe Ruth league. David's own son, Christy, and his sandlot friends will have nowhere to play. Barkus doesn't stop at wanting the town's best players, he also wants access to the town's best baseball field the Babe Ruth field. When David refuses, a bitter conflict divides the town. It threatens his marriage with Annie, his wife, and that s just for openers. With the help of Johnny McFadden a newfound friend who's addicted to baseball David uses both his legal and survival skills to concoct a plan to defend the field and the league. The pair will have to navigate through an underworld of backroom politics, corruption, scandal, and crime that extends to the professional sports world. But in trying to save the league, will David sacrifice his family in the process? Saving Babe Ruth is a humor-laced thriller about a family trying to stay together as it navigates the nutty world of youth sports in a world where kids can easily slip through the cracks. It s also the inspiring tale of a baseball team full of outcasts struggling to believe in themselves. When the time is right, they'll face the prospect of having to fight crazy with crazy to save baseball for themselves, their town and beyond. "

Becoming Babe Ruth

Becoming Babe Ruth
Author: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2024-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536245836

“This exceptionally engaging chronicle recounts Ruth’s amazing rags-to-riches story. . . . Equally important, the art captures Ruth’s irrepressible personality and joy in playing baseball.” — Booklist (starred review) Before he becomes known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and has a knack for getting into trouble. But when he turns seven, his father takes him to Saint Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, and his life is changed. Here, under the watchful eye of Brother Matthias, George evolves as an athlete and a man. With vivid illustrations and clear affection for his subject, Matt Tavares sheds light on an icon who learned early that life is what you make of it — and sends home a message about honoring the place you come from. Back matter includes an author’s note, Babe Ruth’s career statistics, and a bibliography.

Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!

Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!
Author: Frank Murphy
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2013-02-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0385373473

Batter up! It’s 1919 and baseball is in trouble! All across the country, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America’s national pastime. It’s up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball! Can he do it, or will he strike out?

Breaking Babe Ruth

Breaking Babe Ruth
Author: Edmund F. Wehrle
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0826274099

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness and potential to overturn the status quo presented a threat. After a decades-long campaign waged by baseball to contain and discredit him, the Babe, frustrated and struggling with injuries and illness, grew more acquiescent, but the image of Ruth that baseball perpetuated still informs how many people remember Babe Ruth to this day. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.

Home Run

Home Run
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152045999

A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.

The Babe & I

The Babe & I
Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152013783

While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth. Full-color illustrations.

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth
Author: Wayne Stewart
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-07-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313335966

A biography of legendary baseball player for the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth, that chronicles his life, early career, baseball record, and struggle with throat cancer.