The Babe: The Game That Ruth Built
He was a big man, andThe Babeis a big book--a four-bag celebration of the Bambino,  the greatest baseball legend of them all. Lawrence S. Ritter, author ofThe Glory of Their Times, the classic oral history of America's national pastime in the first decades of the 20th century, weaves together a workmanlike, often elegiac, narrative of Babe Ruth's life and career. But it is the all-star collection of photos--of the Babe in action, the Babe just hanging around being the Babe, and rare Ruth collectibles--that sends this volume where the Babe used to send high fastballs: out of the park.Hank Aaron, who  sent a few out himself, pens a warm introduction to the idol whose career home-run record he ultimately surpassed.