The Franchise Babe

Author : Dan Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780767925280

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The Franchise Babe by Dan Jenkins Pdf

Jack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for a big-time magazine. Bored with the PGA, he decides to check out “the Lolitas,” on the LPGA Tour. Jack chooses as a magazine subject Ginger Clayton, a fiery eighteen-year old whose killer looks and killer game make her the kind of star who can take the LPGA to the next level. She is, indeed, The Franchise Babe, and everyone wants a part of her, but someone, it seems, is trying to knock Ginger out of the competition-permanently. Filled with dead-on take downs of sports moms, adventurous promoters, suck-up corporate sponsors, double-dealing sports agents, and just enough menace to make golf dangerous, Dan Jenkins latest tale of hijinks on the links is not to be missed.

Author : Bill Gutman
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781602396296

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What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox? by Bill Gutman Pdf

In this thought-provoking alternative view of history, Bill Gutman spins out the maybes and what ifs that might have followed if some of the most iconic sports moments of all time had gone another way. He imagines a world in which Lombardi returns a hero to take the helm of the New York Giants, resulting in a Packers team that never achieves dynasty status and a Giants team that stumbles to glory late in the decade, a world where Muhammad Ali can't struggle to his feet after a huge blow from Liston and winds up a floundering middle-weight who never makes it big, and yes, a world where Babe Ruth never dons Yankee pinstripes but stays in Boston and out of the record books. With a careful eye for detail and a handful of bold predictions, Gutman attacks the sports history books with gusto, outlining an alternate reality that will change the way fans look at sports forever.

Author : Jerry M. Gutlon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781626367371

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It Was Never About the Babe by Jerry M. Gutlon Pdf

For years, Red Sox fans were told that their team was cursed because the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the hated Yankees. But as Jerry Gutlon reveals in It Was Never About the Babe, there is much more drama to Red Sox history than the “Curse of the Bambino.” The truth is more shocking than any myth. With the thorough research of a seasoned journalist and the zeal of a lifelong Red Sox fan, Gutlon explains why the Sox came up short season after season: ownership chose managers and players not based on their talent, but on whom they drank with; before and after baseball integrated, personal and institutional racism affected their decision-making; and their teams consistently lacked the talent, leadership, chemistry, and luck needed to win championships. Most fans don’t know that Babe Ruth was sold not just to produce a Broadway play, bust also because commissioner Ban Johnson was trying to run Sox owner Harry Frazee out of baseball and because Ruth was a major disruption in the Sox clubhouse. They will be surprised to learn that Jackie Robinson tried out at Fenway Park and shocked to learn that much-admired Tom Yawkey, along with owning the Red Sox, also owned a brothel for decades. Covering the early Red Sox championship dynasty of Ruth, the never-good-enough teams of Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, and Carlton Fisk and Curt Schilling, It Was Never About the Babe is an eye-opening read for every baseball fan, and a must-own book for every fan in Boston.

Author : Bob LeMoine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476685021

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When the Babe Went Back to Boston by Bob LeMoine Pdf

Babe Ruth was 40 and flabby in 1935. His days as a strapping, fearsome home run hitter were behind him. Baseball had flourished into big business through Ruth's swing and swag and didn't need him anymore. His dream was to become a manager but the New York Yankees--a dynasty he helped build--were not interested. But someone wanted him. Judge Emil Fuchs, luckless president of the Boston Braves, had lost a fortune on his perpetually losing team. Desperate to save the club from collapse, he needed Babe Ruth--not the fading slugger but the most famous brand on the planet. This book chronicles the Ruth and Fuchs partnership during a perplexing 1935 season with the 38-115 Braves--truly one of the worst baseball teams in history--along with Ruth's final games, back in the city where he debuted.

Author : Donald Hubbard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786454631

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The Red Sox Before the Babe by Donald Hubbard Pdf

Until 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in 86 years, the team had been plagued by the Curse of the Bambino, a mythical drought attributed to the team's loss of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Though Ruth was a star pitcher in Boston, he was merely continuing a 14-year tradition of the club's strong arms and bats. With rosters that included Cy Young, Jimmy Collins, Jesse Burkett, Jack Chesbro, Big Bill Dinneen, Smoky Joe Wood and Tris Speaker, among others, the young franchise powered its way to three pennants and a couple of world championships before Babe arrived in Beantown. This book covers the team's early years from the diamond to the executive offices.

Author : Daniel Brush,David Horne,Marc Maxwell
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781611210323

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New York Yankees by Daniel Brush,David Horne,Marc Maxwell Pdf

The first MLB franchise to be featured in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the NumbersTM series! THE TEAM: The New York Yankees is the greatest franchise in sports history with forty Hall of Fame legends, thirty-nine American League Pennants, twenty-six World Series titles, and the largest fan base in professional sports. The Sports by the NumbersTM franchise unlocks the storied history of the “Bronx Bombers” by providing fans with a unique and captivating look at the legends who make us all dream of wearing pinstripes. THE FORMAT: The presentation created by the authors distinguishes Sports by the NumbersTM from everything else available today. New York Yankees is composed of ten chapters, each offering one hundred numbered “mini-stories”—facts, anomalies, records, coincidences, and enthralling lore and trivia. Each chapter begins with a stirring introduction highlighting the many exciting stories detailed in that chapter. INTERACTIVE: Numerical entries tagged with SBTN-All Star and SBTN-Hall of Fame logos are scattered throughout this book. These logos indicate that more information is available at our website www.sportsbythenumbers.com. Just click on the athletic locker in the bottom right-hand corner of the homepage and access additional reading material, audio and video clips, and more. Sports by the NumbersTM books are not just for die-hard sports fans, but for every fan and sports history reader who loves sports and wants to know more about their heroes and favorite teams. They will quench any fan’s thirst for entertainment and knowledge. About the Authors: Daniel J. Brush is currently working on his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. David Horne is a professional educator and former high school athletic director currently pursuing his doctoral degree at the University of Oklahoma. Marc CB Maxwell is a Ph.D. student at the University of Oklahoma and is the author of Surviving Military Separation: 365 Days (Savas Beatie, 2007).

Author : Allan Wood
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781469715711

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Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox by Allan Wood Pdf

Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox is the first complete account of Boston's fifth World Series championship. The year is famous, but most fans know very little about the season. During that tumultuous summer, the Great War in Europe cast an ominous shadow over the national game, as enlistments and the draft wreaked havoc with every team's roster. Players and owners fought bitterly over contracts and revenue, the parks were infested with gamblers, and the Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs almost called off the World Series. And a Boston player known as The Colossus -- 23-year-old Babe Ruth -- began his historic transformation from pitching ace to the game's greatest slugger. Wood also poses a chilling question: Was the 1918 World Series fixed? Sports Illustrated called the book "an entertaining and exhaustive account of a tumultuous season" and Robert W. Creamer, author of the definitive biography of Ruth, said "Mr. Wood has lit upon one of the most turbulent and important and at the same time least known years in baseball history. He has done remarkable, revelatory research, and he has a clean, clear way of writing."

Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015716462

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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates: Supplementary volume. 1879 by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library Pdf

Author : Walter LeConte,Mark Gallagher
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1582616833

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The Yankee Encyclopedia by Walter LeConte,Mark Gallagher Pdf

Author : Kerry Keene,Raymond Sinibaldi,David Hickey
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000031746724

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The Babe in Red Stockings by Kerry Keene,Raymond Sinibaldi,David Hickey Pdf

The definitive work on his early years, The Babe in Red Stockings, represents not only a detailed study of his remarkable on-field achievements, but also delves into his happy-go-lucky, playful, and occasionally temperamental nature. Dozens of new pieces of information are added to further complete the portrait of one of America's most fascinating figures, the one and only Babe Ruth.

Author : Lawrence S. Ritter,Mark Rucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019790941

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The Babe by Lawrence S. Ritter,Mark Rucker Pdf

In a remarkable wedding of words and pictures, here is the larger-than-life George Herman "Babe" Ruth, "the greatest player of all time".

Author : Glenn Stout
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466870000

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The Selling of the Babe by Glenn Stout Pdf

WINNER of the Society for American Baseball Research's (SABR) 2017 Larry Ritter Awardfor best baseball book of the Deadball Era The complete story surrounding the most famous and significant player transaction in professional sports The sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 is one of the pivotal moments in baseball history, changing the fortunes of two of baseball's most storied franchises, and helping to create the legend of the greatest player the game has ever known. More than a simple transaction, the sale resulted in a deal that created the Yankee dynasty, turned Boston into an also-ran, helped save baseball after the Black Sox scandal and led the public to fall in love with Ruth. Award-winning baseball historian Glenn Stout reveals brand-new information about Babe and the unique political situation surrounding his sale, including: -Prohibition and the lifting of Blue Laws in New York affected Yankees owner and beer baron Jacob Ruppert -Previously unexplored documents reveal that the mortgage of Fenway Park did not factor into the Ruth sale - Ruth's disruptive influence on the Red Sox in 1918 and 1919, including sabermetrics showing his negative impact on the team as he went from pitcher to outfielder The Selling of the Babe is the first book to focus on the ramifications of the sale and captures the central moment of Ruth's evolution from player to icon, and will appeal to fans of The Kid and Pinstripe Empire. Babe's sale to New York and the subsequent selling of Ruth to America led baseball from the Deadball Era and sparked a new era in the game, one revolved around the long ball and one man, The Babe.

Author : Jim Reisler
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 1888698152

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Babe Ruth Slept Here by Jim Reisler Pdf

Join the author on a nostalgic and delightful romp through the faces and places, both famous and infamous, that mark New York as the capital of America's national pastime.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022091974

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New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Wolf
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803255241

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The Called Shot by Thomas Wolf Pdf

In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled country—and yet the world of baseball was marked by the same edginess that pervaded the national scene. On-the-field fights were as common as double plays. Amid the National League pennant race, Cubs’ shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by showgirl Violet Popovich in a Chicago hotel room. When the regular season ended, the Cubs and Yankees clashed in what would be Babe Ruth’s last appearance in the fall classic. After the Cubs lost the first two games in New York, the series resumed in Chicago at Wrigley Field, with Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt cheering for the visiting Yankees from the box seats behind the Yankees’ dugout. In the top of the fifth inning the game took a historic turn. As Ruth was jeered mercilessly by Cubs players and fans, he gestured toward the outfield and then blasted a long home run. After Ruth circled the bases, Roosevelt exclaimed, “Unbelievable!” Ruth’s homer set off one of baseball’s longest-running and most intense debates: did Ruth, in fact, call his famous home run? Rich with historical context and detail, The Called Shot dramatizes the excitement of a baseball season during one of America’s most chaotic summers.