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.

It's been more than 100 years since George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. first made his mark on baseball, and time has only added to his legend. As his plaque in Baseball's Hall of Fame reads, "Greatest drawing card in history of baseball. Holder of many home run and other batting records." But numbers don't come close to telling the full history of the Sultan of Swat. From his earliest days growing up on the rough streets of Baltimore to his anything-goes...

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.

"Baseball at the Abyss is the story of one of baseball's darkest days and how innovative, behind-the-scenes work of the first-ever player agent pushed the game's greatest player to a history making season, one which rescued a tarnished game"-- "In the winter of 1926, Major League Baseball became enveloped in scandal. Two of baseball's biggest stars, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, were accused of fixing and betting on games. Sportswriters called the scandal...

Babe Ruth was more than baseball's original superstar. For 85 years, he has remained the sport's reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? Based on newly discovered documents and interviews--including pages from Ruth's personal scrapbooks--this book traces Ruth's life from his bleak childhood...

Presents the life of the legendary baseball player, from his impoverished childhood, to his famous trade to the Yankees.

A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.