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Up Close, Babe Ruth: a Twenty Century Life by Wilborn Hampton is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Up Close, Babe Ruth: a Twenty Century Life about?
<p>Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family in Baltimore, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, where he learned how to play baseball. Initially a talented southpaw, the Babe went on to shatter every home-run record on the books-and when fewer games were played in a season and a heavier ball was used. In this engaging and fast-paced biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton shares with readers The Babe was also a man of big heart, temper, and appetite.</p>
Who reads Up Close, Babe Ruth: a Twenty Century Life?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wilborn Hampton
- Publisher
- Viking Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670063055
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, History
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (45 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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