On MLB’s Statecast podcast, pitcher Adam Ottavino recalled a debate he’d had with a coach in Triple A about Babe Ruth’s standing in today’s baseball. It’s a question also asked in The Big Fella, of acclaimed private hitting coach Jason...
The Big Fella joins eight other nominated titles for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. Category judges are Chris Bachelder, Rafi Kohan, and Carvell Wallace. This year’s awards will confer more than $370,000 to writers and translators whose...
Of all the details—and there are tons—that come out in Jane Leavy‘s remarkable biography The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World he Created, perhaps the most intriguing to Yankees fans comes from a bit of math. Most followers know that Ruth was sold to the...
Jackie Atkins of The Philadelphia Inquirer breaks down three myths surrounding Babe Ruth in her review of The Big Fella, of which she writes: In The Big Fella, Jane Leavy, former Washington Post sportswriter, goes a long way toward filling in many of the blanks in...
Tom Shieber, senior curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, traced back a rare clip of Ruth and Gehrig, unearthed at an exhibit on pre-World War II life at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, to their 1927 barnstorming tour covered in...
There are some things about Babe Ruth, beyond his mammoth home runs and World Series titles, that cannot be measured – among them his frequent trips to orphanages and hospitals, and his willingness to play alongside black ballplayers.”He carried this...
