The Selling of the Babe (49 page)
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Authors: Glenn Stout
New York Times
on “the Babe Ruth roar”
on Babe trade
as bullish on Babe
on goliath of the bludgeon
on mighty strikeouts
on National Commission
on spring training Babe
New York Tribune
on Babe golf
on Babe trade
on baseball troubles
on bigger ballpark needs
on Infant Swatigy
Macbeth of
on Ruppert and Huston
on spring training homers
New York Yankees
1919 opening
vs.
Red Sox
1919 Series award of
1920 attendance record of
1920 income of
1920 spring training of
attendance record against Indians for
Babe bought by
Babe insured for $150,000 by
Babe joining
Babe slump ending
Babe spring training slump for
Babe stolen bases for
Baker retires from
Barrow genius at NYY
as better than Red Sox
Caldwell of
city series of
dynasty of
financial strength of
historic month for
hoodoo jinx of
Huggins manager of
income 1920â21 with
as Insurrecto
Johnson, B., suit of
market inferiority of
Mays traded to
Pezzolo traded to
Polo Grounds used by
priorities of
Red Sox and Babe profiting
Red Sox beating
road trip success of
Ruppert and Huston owners of
Russell pitcher for
Russell traded by
Ruthless Red Sox beating
Ruthless Red Sox losing
world championships of
Yankee Stadium for
nicknames
the Babe or Bambino as
Colossus as
NL.
See
National League
No, No, Nanette
NYY.
See
New York Yankees
O'Leary, J. C.
on 1918 strike
on Babe delivering
as Babe press agent
on base slugging percentage (OPS)
outfielder
Babe as
Babe erratic as
Over the Fence
as film on Babe swing
lawsuit over
Owens, Brick
owners
anti-Semitism of
as against players
Pacific Coast League baseball (PCL)
partyer
PCL.
See
Pacific Coast League baseball
personality, of Babe
adored and approachable in
attention loving
Babe trade due to
as bigger than baseball
brooding and slumping
as crowd-pleaser
as discontent with pitching
as disliking criticism
as distanced from team
as heroic
instinctive
naïveté as
as partyer
pioneering
as selfish
talent and appetites of
as thriving in New York
as womanizer
Pezzolo, Francesco Stephano (“Ping Bodie”)
on Babe trade
as traded to NYY
Philadelphia A's
Babe by Bressler of
Columbia Park home of
in Loyal Five
Mack owning
Philadelphia Phillies
Baker Bowl home of
Cravath record for
physique
pioneering
Pipe Dream League
pitcher
in 1918 Series
achievements
Babe discontent as
injured finger of
lively ball worse for
records
time as
value diminished as
Plant Field, Tampa, FL
players against owners
Polo Grounds
Babe homer off Lewis at
Babe packing
as baseball field
as fitting Babe
positions played
first baseman
outfielder
pitcher
Prohibition
public interest
adored and approachable in
as attendance down
Babe bests baseball in
in Babe breaking AL homer record
Babe exciting
as Babe rejected by Boston fans
“the Babe Ruth roar” of
in Babe unique hitting style
as baseball antidote to war
as Boston fans missing Babe
as boys copying Babe
homer focus of
homers energizing
from New York upper crust
in novel home runs
PCL tour big in
Polo Grounds packed from
in Red Sox flagging
in Ruth unprecedented
strikeout stigma in
in strikeouts
stupefying crowds of
success due to
publicity
on 1918 Series
on 1918 strike
attention loving
on Babe besting Seybold AL record
Babe bests baseball in
as Babe eclipsing everyone
on Babe golf
on Babe hitting
on Babe homer records
on Babe pitching
Babe protected by press in
on Babe selfishness
on Babe trade
as bullish on Babe
as different in New York
on goliath of the bludgeon
as good for sportswriters
The Home Run Kid: or How Pep Pindar Won His Title
(Ruth)
on homer explosion
homers as
on PCL barnstorming
on slumping Red Sox
as trade comments of Babe
Quinn, Bob
racism
records
for attendance
domino effect of
homers of Cravath as
homers of Freeman as
homers of Seybold as
homers of Williamson as
of strikeouts
records, of Babe
60 homers as
in 1918 season
in 1919 season
1920 records in
Cravath record topped as
every homer as
Freeman record topped as
highest WAR as
homer 100 as
homer 103 as
for homers
homers 50â51 as
for pitching
publicity on
Seybold record topped as
of strikeouts
Williamson record topped as
Worden record topped as
Red Sox.
See
Boston Red Sox
Red Sox Independents
Reds.
See
Cincinnati Reds
religion
Reynolds, Howard
Rice, Grantland
Babe totals predicted by
on Babe trade
on homer explosion
Roaring Twenties
Babe king of
in New York City
Robinson, Arthur
on Babe besting Worden
on Babe magnanimity
Royal Rooters
Runyon, Damon
on Babe batting spree
in
New York American
as sportswriter and playwright
on spring training homer
Ruppert, Jacob
$150,000 Ruth offer of
1920 income of
on AL board
on AL review board
AL suit of
Babe and Mays offer of
Babe trade needed by
Black Sox scandal concerning
as connected with Tammany Hall
death of
Fenway mortgage of
financial straits of
financial strength of
financially winning
Frazee close with
as Insurrecto
Johnson, B., trades with
against Johnson, B.
Mays trade battle of
Mays traded to
McGeehan on smarts of
in National Baseball Hall of Fame
as NYY owner
Prohibition influencing
as trading for Mays
Yankee Stadium built by
Russell, Allen
as NYY pitcher
traded to Red Sox
Ruth, Dorothy
Ruth, George Herman, Jr. (“Babe”).
See
specific topics
Ruth, George Herman, Sr.
Ruth, Helen
as mostly alone
as wife of Babe
Ruth, Julia
salary cap limits
scientific baseball
Babe abandoning
Barrow committed to
Doyle contrasts Babe with
homers opposite of
of Ruthless Red Sox
style of
self-centered
Senators.
See
Washington Senators
Series.
See
World Series
Seybold, Socks
Shannon, Paul
Babe trade leaks from
of
Boston Post
on Boston team and Babe trade
shipyard leagues.
See
industrial semipro ball
slugging percentage
slumps
of Babe in spring training
Babe slump ending
for Red Sox
small ball style.
See
scientific baseball
Spanish flu
Speaker, Tris
The Sporting News
on Babe
on Babe trade rumors
on Babe with PCL
on National Commission
on selfish Babe
Vila of
sportswriters
Babe benefiting
protection from
useless stories from
spring training
for 1918 Red Sox
for 1919 Red Sox
for 1920 NYY
Babe slump in
homers during
St. Louis Browns
St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys
statistics
on 1920 strikeouts
on Babe homers
on Babe strikeouts
OPS as
slugging percentage as
WAR as
strike
strikeouts
1920 total of
as mighty
popularity of
record number of
stigma of
Sullivan, Joseph (“Sport”)
Black Sox scandal of
as gambler
Sunday baseball
banning
financial windfall of
as legalized in New York
swing mechanics
Babe learning
experimentation with
syndicate baseball
talent and appetites
Tammany Hall
Tampa, FL
Babe homer in
Plant Field in
Red Sox spring training in
Tampa Tribune
Taylor, Charles H. and John
as
Boston Globe
owners
as Fenway Park owners
Fenway sale talking
Frazee offer rejected by
teammates
Tener, John
theater
Frazee entrepreneur in
money in
My Lady Friends
in
No, No, Nanette
in
as not part of Babe trade
Runyon playwright in
trading Babe
Babe comments on
Babe told about
Barrow advice on
Boston reacts to
Comiskey offering
deal structure of
Fenway mortgage in
Frazee explaining
Frazee path for
Hornsby value guage in
Huggins blessing
issues leading to
market size issues in
New York reacts to
publicity on
Red Sox dynasty and
Ruppert needing
theater issues not part of
timing of
transcendent
Babe hitting as
Mathewson as
United News Service
Vila, Joe,
The Sporting News
Wagner, Robert
Walsh, Christy
as Babe agent
as Babe closest friend
war
1918 Series during
Babe impacted by
baseball antidote to
baseball impacted by
Dead Ball Era impacted by
military draft during
“work or fight” draft order in
WWI ending
WAR (wins above replacement)
for 1919
Babe highest in
as statistic
Washington Senators
crowds for Babe playing
Griffith owning
Johnson, W., of
in Loyal Five
Webb, Mel
on Babe and NYY defeat
on Babe as asset
on Babe Baltimore homer
on Babe pitching
on Babe Tampa homer
White Sox.
See
Chicago White Sox
Whiteman, George
Williamson, Ned
Windom, Lawrence
womanizer
Worden, Perry
“work or fight” draft order
on hold
industrial semipro ball alternative to
in WWI
World Series
of 1913
of 1915
of 1916
of 1917
of 1918
of 1919
of 2004
of NYY
WWI.
See
the Great War
Yankee Stadium
Yankees.
See
New York Yankees
Yawkey, Tom
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GLENN STOUT
is the series editor for
The Best American Sports Writing
and a Casey Award finalist author of such titles as
Red Sox Century, Yankees Century,
and
Fenway
1912
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