Babe Ruth remains the most popular player in the history of baseball. The slugger for the New York Yankees established a home run record in the 1927 season, just a year before joining the league of authors. Babe Ruth's Own Book is a who's who of old-time greats--Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and many others. It describes the Babe's rise from poverty to stardom, catching his image and voice as freshly and permanently as pen and ink can. In a no-nonsense style, the Babe describes the ins and outs of the game, ...
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Babe Ruth remains the most popular player in the history of baseball. The slugger for the New York Yankees established a home run record in the 1927 season, just a year before joining the league of authors. Babe Ruth's Own Book is a who's who of old-time greats--Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and many others. It describes the Babe's rise from poverty to stardom, catching his image and voice as freshly and permanently as pen and ink can. In a no-nonsense style, the Babe describes the ins and outs of the game, touching all bases and loading up the reader with priceless information and advice. The surprise is that so little about the sport has changed except the size of the players' salaries.
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Add this copy of Babe Ruth"S Own Book of Baseball to cart. $350.00, good condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by PUTNAM.
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GOOD. 5 X 7 1/2. This is the first edition, 2nd printing, printed April 1928. HALT TITLE PAGE 1 NEAR BOTTOM OF PAGE. Front and back hinge cracked. black lettering to front cover and on spine. Spine discoloring. Pages browning. Black and white frontispiece, rubbing and wear to corners and edges, spine cover bumped. with 31 illustrations _PAB_
Add this copy of Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball to cart. $375.25, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Good. NY: A L Burt 1928. Early reprint. Hardcover 12mo 301 pgs plus 'The Best of Recent Fiction' ads at rear. B/w frontis. Good book in a fair dust jacket. Covers edgeworn, spine ends bumped. Hinge is starting at title pg and webbing is showing. Edges of textblock mottled. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn, chipped, rubbed, torn and has some pieces missing. Rear panel toned. (sports history, baseball) Inquire if you need further information.
Add this copy of Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball to cart. $650.00, fair condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by A. L. BURT COMPANY.
Add this copy of Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball to cart. $750.00, very good condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.
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GIFT QUALITY. 5.5 X 8. Very nice copy, dark blue boards with black lettering to spine and front cover, contains 31 illustrations all in very good condition. Front and back hinges loose. Black and white pictures on front and back paste down page. Light browning to edges. Black and white frontispiece. _PAB_
Add this copy of Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball to cart. $1,500.00, very good condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.
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VERY GOOD. 5.50X8.25. With 31 illustrations present frontispiece of Babe Ruth, covers rubbed, spine discolored, slight fraying to spine at top/bottom and corners _PAB_
