Oct 19, 2018
How Babe Ruth ushered in the era of the home run and the sports celebrity The mob swarmed around Babe Ruth. In the ninth inning of an exhibition game at Brooklyn’s Dexter Park, just days after the New York Yankees’ triumph in the 1927 World Series, masses...
Oct 15, 2018
He made things bigger just by being part of them. Baseball, the Yankees, even New York – everything grew in his presence. George Herman Ruth Jr. – the Babe, the Bambino, the Sultan of Swat – connected with all of them as easily as his bat connected with the...
Oct 15, 2018
Jane Leavy reflects on fraught encounters with Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin in The New Yorker: Jane Leavy Illustration by João Fazenda Last month, forty years after the Southern District court of New York ordered the Yankees to open their clubhouse to female...
Oct 14, 2018
5. “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created” by Jane Leavy (Harper, nonfiction, on sale Oct. 16) What it’s about: With the World Series just a week away, the time seems right for a bio of the Babe, arguably the game’s biggest star...
Oct 11, 2018
Boston Globe, “23 hot picks for cool fall books” Leavy follows up her outstanding biography of Mickey Mantle with another winner, this time about the most important baseball player of all time. The author covers all aspects of Ruth’s massive life,...
Oct 8, 2018
New Books You Should Read This October Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month and next month. The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, by Jane...
