Jane Leavy, THE BIG FELLA : BABE RUTH *SIGNED & DATED* 2019 HCDJ 1ST.1ST Mint!

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Estado
Nuevo: Libro nuevo, sin usar y sin leer, que está en perfecto estado; incluye todas las páginas sin ...
Signed By
Jane Leavy
Custom Bundle
No
Book Series
Historical
Original Language
English
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket, ~First Edition, First Printing Hardcover., ~SIGNED in Person at the Book Signing Event., ~Signed on the Full Title Page by Author., ~FREE: 3 Book Reviews and the Event Flyer.
Subjects
Sports
Signed
Yes
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Title
THE BIG FELLA
Age Level
Adults
Inscribed
No
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Modified Item
No
Subject
Baseball
Edition
First Edition
Type
Short Stories
Year
2018
Literary Movement
Modernism
Era
1940s
Special Attributes
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780062380227

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062380222
ISBN-13
9780062380227
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242715746

Product Key Features

Book Title
Big Fella : Babe Ruth and the World He Created
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Personal Memoirs, Sports
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Jane Leavy
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
32.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-167865
Reviews
This is one of the best sports biographies I have ever read. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, it reveals with stunning insight both the talents and the demons that drove Mickey Mantle, bringing him to life as never before., Covers all aspects of Ruth's massive life, bringing true empathy and impressive depth of knowledge to her complex subject., Leavy always entertains, injecting necessary context about a sport that was just beginning to become a major advertising and marketing vehicle. She also evokes sympathy for the Babe ... without excusing his sins and excesses. Leavy brings the larger-than-life slugger down to the size of a real human being., Praise for Jane Leavy: "The Last Boy is something new in the history of the histories of the Mick. It is hard fact, reported by someone greatly skilled at that craft...and presented so that the reader and not the author draws nearly all the conclusions.", Magnificent.... All this is only to touch on the wealth of research, detail and astuteness of observation that make up The Big Fella. Some of it is sad.... But the winning side of the Babe's life predominates in these pages and in history., There have been numerous books written about the enormous life of Babe Ruth.... Jane Leavy, though, manages to mine new material in her wonderful book.... Ultimately, Leavy provides a different perspective of a man who consistently broke the mold in sports and society., One rule of thumb personally adopted is I read anything Jane Leavy writes. She's that good.... Leavy is an exquisite reporter and researcher, which melds with her prose to make for a wonderful gift., The same insight and verve that attracted readers to Leavy's portraits of Mickey Mantle and Sandy Koufax manifest themselves here as she traces the improbable transformation of the insecure little George into the imposing Sultan of Swat, master of the diamond and unparalleled national celebrity.... An American icon brought to life., The Big Fella is just amazing. Filled with fabulous tales. Tell me you wouldn't have wanted to follow the Bambino around on a barnstorming tour in 1927. Now you can!
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
796.357092 B
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax , comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus - Newsweek - The Philadelphia Inquirer - The Progressive Winner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal - Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award - Longlisted for Spitball Magazine's Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year - Finalist for the NBCC Award for Biography "Leavy's newest masterpiece.... A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling." -- Forbes He lived in the present tense--in the camera's lens. There was no frame he couldn't or wouldn't fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace--radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers--Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh--business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit--Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. His was a life of journeys and itineraries--from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases. After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927--a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season--he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella , acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth's life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe Publishers Weekly Kirkus Newsweek The Philadelphia Inquirer The Progressive Winner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award Longlisted for Spitball Magazine's Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Finalist for the NBCC Award for Biography "Leavy's newest masterpiece.... A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling." --Forbes He lived in the present tense--in the camera's lens. There was no frame he couldn't or wouldn't fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace--radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers--Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh--business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit--Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. His was a life of journeys and itineraries--from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases. After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927--a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season--he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth's life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax , comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe Publishers Weekly Kirkus Newsweek The Philadelphia Inquirer The Progressive Winner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award Longlisted for Spitball Magazine's Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Finalist for the NBCC Award for Biography "Leavy's newest masterpiece.... A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling." -- Forbes He lived in the present tense--in the camera's lens. There was no frame he couldn't or wouldn't fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace--radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers--Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh--business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit--Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. His was a life of journeys and itineraries--from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases. After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927--a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season--he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella , acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth's life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.

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