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    The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy | Conversation Starters
    The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy | Conversation Starters
    The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy | Conversation Starters
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    The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy | Conversation Starters

    The "Symphony of Swat" was a show bigger than other circuses that ever toured the country. Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy recounts the tour that brought baseball legend Babe Ruth closer to his fans around America. In September 1927, Babe Ruth hit his record-breaking 60th home run and started his three-week barnstorming travels across America. Touring with famed teammate Lou Gehrig, the event is told by Leavy, painting Ruth with what critics say as the pathos that appropriately described Ruth's life.

    The Big Fella is a New York Times bestseller and is chosen as Best Book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly.

    A Brief Look Inside:

    EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
    than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
    and the characters and its world still live on.
    Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
    bring us beneath the surface of the page
    and invite us into the world that lives on.
    These questions can be used to..

    Create Hours of Conversation:
    • Foster a deeper understanding of the book
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    • Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaily Books
    Release dateJun 16, 2019
    ISBN9788834141939
    The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy | Conversation Starters

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