7,000 clams
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lee Irby.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948 -- Fiction.; Promissory notes -- Fiction.; Baseball players -- Fiction.; Prohibition -- Fiction.; Saint Petersburg (Fla.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Seven thousand clams
Description: When Frank Hearn, a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and tough guy looking to score big in 1920s America, gets his hand on a handwritten IOU for $7000 signed by Babe Ruth, he embarks on an odyssey from New Jersey to St. Petersburg, Florida, where the Yankees are about to begin spring training, in order to convince the Babe to give him the money.