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Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family in Baltimore, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, where he learned how to play baseball. Initially a talented southpaw, the Babe went on to shatter every home-run record on the books?and when fewer games were played in a season and a heavier ball was used. In this engaging and fast-paced biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton shares with readers The Babe was also a man of big heart, temper, and appetite.

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"Wilborn Hampton has been an editor and book and theater critic for the New York Times. He is also the award-winning author of ""Up Close: Elvis Presley"" (Viking) and ""Kennedy Assassinated!."" He lives in New York City."

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