Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star - Couverture rigide

Wehrle, Edmund F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826221602 ISBN 13 : 9780826221605

Editeur : University of Missouri Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Edmund F. Wehrle is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, where he has taught since 2000. He is the author of Between a River and a Mountain: The AFLCIO and the Vietnam War, and co-author with Lawrence Peskin of America and the World: Culture, Commerce, Conflict.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Missouri Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826221602
• ISBN 13: 9780826221605
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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