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The Big Fella
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Author : Jane Leavy
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The Big Fella written by Jane Leavy and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 “Leavy’s newest masterpiece…. A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling.” —Forbes He lived in the present tense—in the camera’s lens. There was no frame he couldn’t or wouldn’t fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace—radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers—Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh—business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit—Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. His was a life of journeys and itineraries—from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases. After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927—a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season—he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth’s life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.
Big Fella Rain
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Author : Beryl Webber
language : en
Publisher: Magabala Books
Release Date : 2017-10-01
Big Fella Rain written by Beryl Webber and has been published by Magabala Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Age range 3 - 8 Big Fella Rain is a celebration of northern Australia as animals, birds, trees and a parched earth await the first rain. It is almost as if country stands still as the sparse yet evocative text pays homage to the transition from dry season to wet season in a country that is like no other place in the world. Fern Martins illustrations seamlessly portray the dramatic skies, the thirsty animals and tiny creatures whose very existence rely on the monsoonal changes. Her exquisite rendering of the big landscape against the subtle shifts in the environment have a timeless quality that will capture the hearts of all readers. Included on the Children's Book Council of Australia 2018 Notables list. 'Big Fella Rain is a glorious salute to the cycles of life and the seasons that shape those cycles. One to look at, feel and absorb many times over.' — Boomerang Books
The Big Bam
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Author : Leigh Montville
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2006-05-02
The Big Bam written by Leigh Montville and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
National Bestseller He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. Babe Ruth was more than baseball’s original superstar. For eighty-five 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? In The Big Bam, Leigh Montville, whose recent New York Times bestselling biography of Ted Williams garnered glowing reviews and offered an exceptionally intimate look at Williams’s life, brings his trademark touch to this groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the Babe. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in the history of organized sports. Based on newly discovered documents and interviews—including pages from Ruth’s personal scrapbooks —The Big Bam traces Ruth’s life from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his brash entrance into professional baseball, from Boston to New York and into the record books as the world’s most explosive slugger and cultural luminary.
The Big Fella
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Author : Robert Macklin
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2010-08-02
The Big Fella written by Robert Macklin and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-02 with Business & Economics categories.
The never-before-told story of BHP Billiton's global conquests, told by the key players. BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. The Big Fella: The rise and rise of BHP Billiton is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of the world. Based on more than 60 exclusive interviews, it rips away the superficial gloss to expose the political and industrial forces that really drive Big Business in the 21st century. In an investigative tour de force, authors Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin reveal the visions, the schemes, the scandals and the corporate life-and-death struggles that have characterised BHP's evolution from the first lucky strike by the mysterious Charles Rasp at Broken Hill in 1883 to its merger with Billiton in 2001 to its daring $150 billion bid for Rio Tinto six years later. The result is a gripping story of foresight and blunder, of nation-building and rampant ego, of greed and of grace, written by two master storytellers with, for the first time, access to the key players themselves. The Big Fella won the 2010 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature.
Big Fella
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Author : Alan St. Jean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Big Fella written by Alan St. Jean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cooperation categories.
Ralphie learns valuable lessons about cooperation as he wanders through the jungle of his imagination in pursuit of a great big lion.
Summary Of The Big Fella Babe Ruth And The World He Created Conversation Starters
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Author : London Sky Press
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2019-03-18
Summary Of The Big Fella Babe Ruth And The World He Created Conversation Starters written by London Sky Press and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-18 with Reference categories.
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 - Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups - Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately - Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before Disclaimer: This book you are about to enjoy is an independent resource to supplement the original book, enhancing your experience. If you have not yet purchased a copy of the original book, please do before purchasing this unofficial Conversation Starters. (c) Copyright 2019 Download your copy now on sale Read it on your PC, Mac, iOS or Android smartphone, tablet devices.
The Big Fella
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Author : Bede Nairn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12
The Big Fella written by Bede Nairn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12 with Australia categories.
Jack Lang was twice premier of New South Wales, his second term ending in 1932 with dismissal by the Governor at the height of the Great Depression. Covering a key period in Australia's history, and that of the Australian Labor Party, The Big Fella is much more than an illuminating biography of the complex Lang.
Thanks A Million Big Fella
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Author : Sam Smyth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Thanks A Million Big Fella written by Sam Smyth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Corporations categories.
Sandy Koufax
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Author : Jane Leavy
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Sandy Koufax written by Jane Leavy and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory… a remarkably rich portrait.” — Time The New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then—just as quickly—into self-imposed exile.
The Big Fella
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Author : Mike Knuckey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Big Fella written by Mike Knuckey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Cancer categories.