Breaking Babe Ruth : baseball's campaign against its biggest star /

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"Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball's draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth's immense popularity represented opportunity, but his re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wehrle, Edmund F., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri, [2018]
Series:Sports and American culture series.
Subjects:
Ruth, Babe, > 1895-1948.
Ruth, Babe, > 1895-1948
Major League Baseball (Organization) > History > 20th century.
Major League Baseball (Organization)
1900-1999
Baseball > United States > History > 20th century.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
Joueurs de base-ball > États-Unis > Biographies.
1900 - 1999.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Baseball
Baseball players
United States
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Baseball's search for order
  • Frenzy!
  • Challenge to authority, part I
  • "A remarkable change in the king of swat": comeback I
  • Challenge to authority part II
  • "It was just a matter of physical condition": comeback II
  • Triumph
  • "Fair enough in times like these"
  • Removing Ruth
  • "A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave".

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