Then this: A proposal to write a new book on Babe Ruth, one of the most well-documented figures in sports history, including a 1974 biography by Robert Creamer that is considered a landmark in the ...

We all know the lovable showman Babe Ruth and his legendary career. In a new biography, author Jane Leavy unearths a previously-unknown childhood event that shaped Ruth into the man we know today.

Her childhood was privileged but lonely — her parents had a terrible divorce — and her education indifferent. ... Babe Ruth signed his new contract with Jacob Ruppert in 1934, ...

Babe Ruth, who was the first MLB player to hit 60 homers in a season and the player who single-handedly changed the strategy of baseball, will be profiled on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET.

I wish that the venerable The New York Times Book Review treated Jane Leavy’s magnificent new biography, The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, with more respect.I love the Book ...

The Sultan of Swat. The Great Bambino. The Caliph of Clout. Babe Ruth has been known by many names, including George Herman Ruth, Jr., which is the name he was born with on February 6, 1895, in ...

A lifelong Catholic, Ruth raised money for St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, the boarding school were he lived most of his childhood, once taking the school’s band on tour for fundraisers ...

Jane Leavy’s second book, a critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling biography of Mickey Mantle in 2010, has sold 211,000 copies in hardback and 60,000 in paperback. Such commercial ...

A lifelong Catholic, Ruth raised money for St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, the boarding school were he lived most of his childhood, once taking the school’s band on tour for fundraisers ...