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Babe Ruth

by Wilborn Hampton
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Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Babe Ruth in this captivating entry in the Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.
Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family that lived above a saloon on the Baltimore waterfront, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, and it was there he learned how to play baseball. He started out as a an ace southpaw pitcher, but it was with his mighty swing of the bat that he achieved his greatness, shattering every home-run record on the books in a legendary twenty-two-year career.
In this engaging and fast-paced Up Close biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton tells how Babe Ruth—a man of gargantuan appetites, a fiery temper, and a generous heart—lived a life as colorful off the field as on.

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:6.8
  • Lexile® Measure:1120
  • Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
  • Text Difficulty:5