Breaking Babe Ruth

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Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Edmund F. Wehrle, Edmund F Wehrle

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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 rebelliousness and potential to overturn the status quo presented a threat. After a decades-long campaign waged by baseball to contain and discredit him, the Babe, frustrated and struggling with injuries and illness, grew more acquiescent, but the image of Ruth that baseball perpetuated still informs how many people remember Babe Ruth to this day. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-19
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSports and American Culture
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Missouri Press
ISBN9780826223470

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Acknowledgments/ xiIntroduction/ 3Chapter 1: BASEBALL’S SEARCH FOR ORDER/ 13Chapter 2: FRENZY!/ 41Chapter 3: CHALLENGE TO AUTHORITY, PART I/ 65Chapter 4: “A REMARKABLE CHANGE IN THE KING OF SWAT”: COMEBACK I/ 95Chapter 5: CHALLENGE TO AUTHORITY, PART II/ 115Chapter 6: “IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF PHYSICAL CONDITION”: COMEBACK II/ 141Chapter 7: TRIUMPH/ 161Chapter 8: “FAIR ENOUGH IN TIMES LIKE THESE”/ 185Chapter 9: Removing Ruth/ 203Chapter 10: “A WELL-PAID SLAVE IS NONETHELESS A SLAVE”/ 223Notes/ 239Bibliography/ 275Index/ 283

“For nearly two decades, Major League Baseball waged a war, primarily through the press, against its greatest hero—on one hand using Ruth to save the game from its most tainted era, while on the other ‘infantilizing’ Ruth and feeding the myth of a naïve, wayward adolescent in order to control their savior’s more dangerous impulses.”—Nathan Michael Corzine, Instructor in History, Coastal Carolina Community College; author of Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball