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81) Babe Ruth
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Presents the life and career of George Herman Ruth, perhaps the most talented and popular player in baseball history.
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In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won their fifth World Series, thanks in great part to the young pitching and hitting sensation Babe Ruth, or The Bambino. Following the 1919 season, in which the team failed to make the Series, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the Babe to the New York Yankees. The Sox have never won a Series since. Told with humor in the face of heartache, focuses not on the players who have come and gone, but on the die-hard fans who live...
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"Baseball at the Abyss is the story of one of baseball's darkest days and how innovative, behind-the-scenes work of the first-ever player agent pushed the game's greatest player to a history making season, one which rescued a tarnished game." --
"In the winter of 1926, Major League Baseball became enveloped in scandal. Two of baseball's biggest stars, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, were accused of fixing and betting on games. Sportswriters called the...
87) Babe Ruth
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A narrative portrait of the iconic Baseball Hall of Fame inductee's childhood imagines his years spent in an orphanage and reformatory, his introduction to baseball by monks, and the influences that shaped his subsequent athletic achievements.
95) Baseball legends
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Through the use of rare and enhanced archival material, state-of-the-art production techniques and fresh historical and psychological perspectives this enthusiastically and unapologetically presents the stories of these American icons. Babe Ruth; Ted Williams; Hank Aaron; and Lou Gehrig turned the game of baseball into the national pastime that it is today.
97) The house that Ruth built: a new stadium, the first Yankee championship, and the redemption of 1923
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Weintraub recreates the pivotal year that transformed the New York Yankees into the legendary franchise of today. Overshadowed by the New York Giants, the hapless Yankees played their home games at the ballpark of their cross-town rivals. But when Yankee Stadium was completed in 1923, Babe Ruth bounced back from a disappointing season--launching the Yankees' storied history and immortalizing the stadium as the "House That Ruth Built."
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Everyone's hero: 10-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.
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