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

Libro 18 di 21: Sports and American Culture

Wehrle, Edmund F.

 
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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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Edmund F. Wehrle is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston.

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9780826223470: Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star

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ISBN 10:  0826223478 ISBN 13:  9780826223470
Casa editrice: Univ of Missouri Pr, 2025
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