Crown Publishing Group, The. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Crown Publishing Group, The ISBN 0812905407 9780812905403 [US]

Signed by Author... see photo. Jacket has some tears and the page edges show some discoloration Date: 1975. Quadrangle/new York Times Book Co ISBN 0812905407 9780812905403 [US]

Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co, Date: 1975. Hardcover in very good condition with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is price clipped.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1975. Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co ISBN 0812905407 9780812905403 [US]

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Date: 1975. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. xiv, 592,[2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. A Note on Sources. Index. Cover has some wear. This biography of Babe Ruth is the first serious biography of an American professional athlete by a professional historian. Marshall Smelser earned his Ph.D. at Harvard under the direction of Samuel Eliot Morison, a Pulitzer Prize historian of maritime and American history. Smelser taught at the University of Notre Dame for almost three decades. The author of The Winning of Independence (1973) and other books, he was also a musician and dedicated baseball scholar. For this book, Smelser corresponded with Ruth's surviving contemporaries, such as the Yankee catcher, Bill Dickey. Some of that correspondence Smelser donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame, which has since digitalized it online. In a March 3, 1972 letter to Dickey, Smelser said he had "to confess that I grew up in central Illinois and there your teams had to be either the Cubs or Cardinals" in the National League or the White Sox or Browns in the American League. He added, "I never was a Yankee fan until I began getting back your answers. I am one now. I speak of the team." He told Dickey that, "Approximately half of the 42 surviving Yankees of the seasons of the 1920-34 have answered my inquiry. This is a sensationally high proportion for an unsolicited questionnaire." Among his respondents, he said there ...

Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co, Date: 1975-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1975. Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co ISBN 0812905407 9780812905403 [US]