Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star (Sports and American Culture) - Tapa blanda

Libro 18 de 21: Sports and American Culture

Wehrle, Edmund F.

 
9780826223470: Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star (Sports and American Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0826223478 ISBN 13: 9780826223470
Editorial: University of Missouri Press, 2025

Sinopsis

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness and potential to overturn the status quo presented a threat. After a decades-long campaign waged by baseball to contain and discredit him, the Babe, frustrated and struggling with injuries and illness, grew more acquiescent, but the image of Ruth that baseball perpetuated still informs how many people remember Babe Ruth to this day. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.

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Edmund F. Wehrle is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, where he has taught since 2000. He is the author of Between a River and a Mountain: The AFLCIO and the Vietnam War, and co-author with Lawrence Peskin of America and the World: Culture, Commerce, Conflict.

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Editorial
University of Missouri Press
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0826223478
ISBN 13 
9780826223470
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
304
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9780826221605: Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign against Its Biggest Star (Sports and American Culture Series)

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