The Big Fella

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 Best Book Of The Year-The Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The ProgressiveWinner of the 2019 Sabr Seymour Medal | Finalist for the Pen/Espn Literary Sports Writing Award | Longlisted for Spitball Magazine's Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year | Finalist for the Nbcc Award for Biography "" Leavy's newest masterpiece…. A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling"". -ForbesHe 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.