1895-1948

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1895-1948

Babe

the legend comes to life
1992
Traces the life of baseball great Babe Ruth from his experiences at a Baltimore boy's school to his glory days with the Yankees and death from cancer in 1948.

The soaring twenties

Babe Ruth and the home-run decade
1996
Discusses the changes in professional major league baseball during the 1920s, including the pennant race scandal in 1920, the founding of the Negro Leagues, Babe Ruth's career, the farm system, and more.

The girl who struck out Babe Ruth

2000
A retelling of the day Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen-year-old female professional baseball player, struck out the New York Yankees best hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, in an exhibition game in 1931.

The Babe & I

1999
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.

Babe Ruth and the baseball curse

2009
Describes the curse that seemed to haunt the Boston Red Sox after they traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees and could not win a World Series--until 2004.

Babe Ruth

1991
Presents the life and career of George Herman Ruth, perhaps the most talented and popular player in baseball history.

Babe and me

a baseball card adventure
2000
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.

Babe Ruth

1988
Presents the life and career of George Herman Ruth, perhaps the most talented and popular player in baseball history.

The Babe & I

2004
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.

My Grandma, major-league slugger

2001
When magic enables Zack's eighty-eight-year-old grandmother to become a terrific batter, she ends up playing in a Chicago White Sox baseball game.

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