The Selling of the Babe (50 page)

 

ALSO BY
GLENN STOUT

Fenway 1912

Young Woman and the Sea

Nine Months at Ground Zero

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Introduction

Prologue: September 11, 1918

  
1.
George Herman Ruth

  
2.
This Means War

  
3.
1918

  
4.
Hijinks and Heroes

  
5.
Out of Left Field

  
6.
Rebellion and Revolution

  
7.
The Insurrectos

  
8.
For Sale

  
9.
Welcome to New York

10.
The “Infant Swatigy”

11.
A New Day

12.
Making the Sale

13.
The Babe

Epilogue: Closing the Sale

Photographs

Notes

Bibliography

Appendix: Babe Ruth Home Run Log: 1915 Through 1920

Index

About the Author

Also by Glenn Stout

Copyright

 

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THE SELLING OF THE BABE
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Cover design by Rob Grom

Cover photographs: Babe Ruth © Pictorial Press Ltd. / Alamy Stock Photo; sales tag © Andrey Kuzmin / Shutterstock; baseball © Bryan Solomon

Title page: Babe Ruth with the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 1919. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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ISBN 978-1-250-06431-8 (hardcover)

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First Edition: March 2016