Babe Ruth: A Daughter's Portrait [Hardcover]

George Beim (Author), Julia Ruth Stevens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1998

is a family photo album filled with over 200 new, never-before-published images of Ruth. Each photo is accompanied by a caption by Julia Ruth Stevens in which she identifies and reflects on the event.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

There's something about the Babe. He continues to mesmerize long after the retiring of #3, and it's his enduring familiarity that makes this spruced-up family album assembled by his daughter such alluring fun. The Bambino was certainly one of the most willingly photographed individuals of his time, but A Daughter's Portrait goes beyond the staged and hyped--though the staged and the hyped are displayed in full glory--to offer some lovely images of a man of minimal privacy just being himself: fishing and hunting with the guys, missing a putt, reading the paper, at ease with his family. Some of the photo captions suffer from saccharine overdose, and others are factually incomplete or inaccurate, but that only conspires to make this whole seductive enterprise more personal, endearing, and folksy. --Jeff Silverman

Review

What a loving, hearfelt portrait of the Babe, and its done with photographs And what terrific photo's they are! A must for the bookshelves fans of Mr. Ruth. (One More Inning )

Julia culled family photos to put together a wonderful compilation of mostly never-before-seen photographs of the Babe. (Hartford Advocate )

More than 200 never-before-published personal photos depict the Bambino as family man, accompanied by annotations from his daughter. (Usa Today Baseball Weekly )

A family photo album that offers fans of the Babe rare glimpses into the storied Yankee's life on and off the diamond. (Syracuse Herald-Journal )

... a breezy and enjoyable thumb-through ... (Columbus Dispatch )

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878339957
• ISBN-13: 978-0878339952
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,201,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #56 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( R ) > Ruth, Babe

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pictures that speak to you!, July 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Babe Ruth: A Daughter's Portrait (Hardcover)

This book is fantastic for all baseball lovers. It puts you in touch with the real person that Babe Ruth was and how caring he was. I found out stuff that I never really knew about him, such as his rough childhood and how interested he was in several different sports. This book is great for people who like to look at pictures, but if you want to read more than see, then this book is not for you. It provides great picturely information about his life but it could use more pictures of him with his baseball team.

0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a woman's questions, January 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Babe Ruth: A Daughter's Portrait (Hardcover)

i am not understanding how julia babe's adopted daughter wrote a book about him and his adopted daughter dorothy had nothing to do with it is dorothy dead or she just doesn't wanna talk about it. I'd really like to know about it because it just left me hangin and i did like the book it was very good and there are lucky to have a father like babe ruth i think there the luckiest kid's in the world to have been adopted by george herman ruth jr. it most take alot to open up about your father who lost his battle with throat cancer.i am so sorry for your father's death i lost my mom at the age of twelve of nasalpharonyx cancer it was hard but i am making it today with 1 beautiful son andrew his my gift from god thanks for letting me explain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~anonymous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!