VINTAGE The life that Ruth built: A biography by Marshall Smelser

The life that Ruth built: A biography by Marshall Smelser ISBN: 0812905407 Hardcover 592 pages In the first third of our century Babe Ruth was the idol of the American crowd. In Ruth's story fiction and fact blended. Marshall Smelser, setting aside the legends, starts afresh as if Ruth were unknown and writes his life as a historian would write the life of any person eminent for the quality of performance-whether actor, musician, chess champion, or athlete. SKU B-A-572