Up close, Babe Ruth

By Wilborn Hampton

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Baseball players, Nonfiction, Baseball, biography, Juvenile Nonfiction, History, Ruth, babe, 1895-1948

Description: Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family in Baltimore, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, where he learned how to play baseball. Initially a talented southpaw, the Babe went on to shatter every home-run record on the books—and when fewer games were played in a season and a heavier ball was used. In this engaging and fast-paced biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton shares with readers The Babe was also a man of big heart, temper, and appetite.