1935 Babe Ruth's Big Book Of Baseball Illustrated 65 Page Book MLB Yankees

Description: This 1935 Babe Ruth's Big Book Of Baseball Illustrated 65 Page Book MLB Yankees is the exact item you will receive and has been certified Authentic by REM Fine Collectibles. George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Babe Ruth's Big Book - Reprint of the 1928 original. On every page is Ruth's gargantuan and all-embracing spirit. A year after crunching 60 home runs, the Babe set out to make a few extra bucks by telling his story, but he tells much more than that. This insightful book confirms Ruth was a remarkably astute observer of the game and strategic tactician; he was no mere one-dimensional player. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members. At age seven, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory where he was mentored by Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school's disciplinarian and a capable baseball player. In 1914, Ruth was signed to play Minor League baseball for the Baltimore Orioles but was soon sold to the Red Sox. By 1916, he had built a reputation as an outstanding pitcher who sometimes hit long home runs, a feat unusual for any player in the dead-ball era. Although Ruth twice won 23 games in a season as a pitcher and was a member of three World Series championship teams with the Red Sox, he wanted to play every day and was allowed to convert to an outfielder. With regular playing time, he broke the MLB single-season home run record in 1919 with 29. After that season, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the Yankees amid controversy. The trade fueled Boston's subsequent 86-year championship drought and popularized the "Curse of the Bambino" superstition. In his 15 years with the Yankees, Ruth helped the team win seven American League (AL) pennants and four World Series championships. His big swing led to escalating home run totals that not only drew fans to the ballpark and boosted the sport's popularity but also helped usher in baseball's live-ball era, which evolved from a low-scoring game of strategy to a sport where the home run was a major factor. As part of the Yankees' vaunted "Murderers' Row" lineup of 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs, which extended his own MLB single-season record by a single home run. Ruth's last season with the Yankees was 1934, and he retired after a short stint with the Boston Braves the following year. In his career, he led the AL in home runs twelve times. Babe Ruth's Big BookHis analyses of pitching and hitting and contemporary players' talents in the field and at the plate remain as solid today as they were then. He intuited what the modern number crunchers have borne out. As much fun as Ruth's opinionated prose still is to read, the added delight in an ancient text like this is the language itself and how it's changed in the ensuing decades. Well-dressed ballplayers are "the glass of fashion," a pitcher who's easy to hit is a "cousin," anyone who talks a lot is a "barber," and big boppers like the Babe weren't power hitters, they were "smart hitters" or "swing hitters," as opposed to "choke hitters"--as in choking-up on the bat, not failing in the clutch. "I'm proud of my record in baseball," Ruth says, "and I'd be ungrateful to say otherwise. Every time I drive in a run, every time I hit a ball over the fence or hear the cheers of the bleacher fans ringing in my ears I get a great kick." 2× All-Star (1933, 1934)7× World Series champion (1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932)AL MVP (1923)AL batting champion (1924)12× AL home run leader (1918–1921, 1923, 1924, 1926–1931)5× AL RBI leader (1919–1921, 1923, 1926)AL ERA leader (1916)Pitched a combined no-hitter on June 23, 1917New York Yankees No. 3 retiredMonument Park honoreeBoston Red Sox Hall of FameMajor League Baseball All-Century TeamMajor League Baseball All-Time Team1st on all-time OPS with 1.1641st on all-time OPS+ with 2062nd on all-time slugging % with 0.6902nd on all-time on-base % list with .4742nd on all-time At bats per HR list with 11.763rd on all-time RBI list with 2,2133rd on all-time home run list with 7143rd on all-time bases on balls list with 2,0624th on all-time runs list with 2,174 (Tied with Hank Aaron)7th on all-time total bases list with 5,7939th on all-time batting average list with .342 (Tied with Dan Brothers)

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