{"product_id":"the-big-fella-babe-ruth-and-the-world-he-created","title":"The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive Babe Ruth biography—the man Roger Angell dubbed \"the model for modern celebrity.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The Progressive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner 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 Biography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Leavy’s newest masterpiece…. A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Forbes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter 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 America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a \"Symphony of Swat.\" The Omaha World Herald called it \"the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent.\" In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth’s life and times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the Yankee legend and delivers the man.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow did an uncouth, abandoned boy become the model for modern celebrity?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn Unprecedented Barnstorming Tour:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Recreates the legendary 21-day “Symphony of Swat” with teammate Lou Gehrig that captivated America after Ruth hit his 60th home run.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBlueprint for a Modern Star:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Details the crucial partnership with business manager Christy Walsh, who helped Ruth draft the blueprint for athletic stardom still in use today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMeticulously Researched:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Draws on over 250 interviews and a trove of untapped family records to separate the man from the mythology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Work of American History:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Places the larger-than-life icon within the context of his times, from his journey from Baltimore to New York to his final days in Boston.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tuliptree Book Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46699287609483,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0715\/8549\/7227\/files\/81uKs3NNNjL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776905334","url":"https:\/\/shop.tuliptreebookco.com\/products\/the-big-fella-babe-ruth-and-the-world-he-created","provider":"Tuliptree Book Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}