Babe Ruth

Baseball Legends

by Norman L. Macht

Baseball's all-time greatest drawing card, George Herman ('Babe') Ruth was the game's premier home run hitter- and one of its best pitchers, too.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

64 pages

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Norman Macht is a freelance baseball historian who has authored numerous books and innumerable articles in publications such as Baseball Digest, The Sporting News, National Sports Daily, Sports Heritage, USA Today Baseball Weekly, The San Francisco Examiner and The National Pastime (plus other SABR publications).

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this is the sanitized version of the life history of Babe Ruth, it does convey his incredible achievements and star power. In my opinion, the most incredible statistic in all of professional sports is Ruth’s performance in 1920, when he hit 54 home runs, more that all the other teams in the American League. He truly transformed how baseball was played. Before his arrival as a hitter, the home run was considered an unnecessary fluke. When the fans began to appreciate Ruth’s ability to hit the ball great distances, other players began modifying their approach and the equipment modified.
While there were a few great athletes before Ruth that garnered a great deal of fame, Ruth was the first true superstar celebrity of sports. Everyone knew his name and followed his performance any way they could. Other than describing his incredible appetite for food, there is no mention of Ruth’s many vices other than smoking. This book maintains the façade of Ruth the unflawed hero that was the norm in sports writing up until the late sixties. Nevertheless, it is a good introduction to what will always remain the most transformative figure in all of American professional sports history.

[Cole Ferreira · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book Babe Ruth by Norman L. Macht was an amazing book and very interesting. Baseball is my life and reading about baseball makes me happy especially when it is well written and this book was. This showed a lot of very informational pages and very interesting facts. I would recommend this to all my friends and rate this 5 stars.

[Jake C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book "Babe Ruth" was an interesting, page turning story that was engaging the whole time. George Herman Ruth Jr.spent his whole life playing baseball with the Boston Red Sox and The New York Yankees, it was an enjoyment in his life. He sometimes would have minor slumps or lose the world series, but he got right back up for the next season. I like the way the author, Norman L. Macht, described the was the Great Bambino enjoyed the sport of baseball. When he would go out and pitch a shutout or slam the ball out of Yankee Stadium it was what people looked for during their day. There were minor problems in the story, such as; the author not explaining his life after baseball as much as he should have. This is a good example of a biography because it is 99.9% strictly Babe Ruth. It shows when he was a baby until he sadley passed away of cancer. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys baseball or is interested in watching it. This book is almost all baseball, Babe Ruth growing up with the wonerful sport of baseball, then playing in the majors professionally. Overall, the book "Babe Ruth" was very attrative book to me and to many other people.

[Anthony M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Babe Ruth
It was a good book to read because it was about two kids who liked babe ruth.They met him at a game. they got to go to a game and Babe gave them each a ball because they liked babe and they think that he was a good player.They didn’t like when Babe Ruth went to the New York Yankees.He hit a lot of home runs there.

Babe ruth I read it and it was a good book because it was about baseball and I like baseball so it was a good book for me.I liked it because he was on the Boston Red Sox and I like the red sox.There were two boys and there liked babe ruth because he is good and they are happy because they got to mite him and they got to go to one of his baseball games.Then he went to the Yankees and no won liked him for Boston Red Sox.

[Jacqueline Lang · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book telling the life of Babe Ruth, a baseball legend. It is a very easy read for kids who are interested in sports and baseball. It tells stories from the very beginning of Ruth's career to the end. There are also some really cool pictures from when Ruth played.

[Matthew Quinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a great book about Babe Ruth. It gave facts about his career and real life. The reason i enjoyed it was I learned many thiongs about him that i didnt know before. I recommend thos book to all baseball fans.

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[Isaac Casino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book tells you good facts about the Great Babe Ruth!!!

[Jacob Razer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it. I learned lots of interesting things about Babe Ruth. I now know a lot about Babe Ruth.