Young Babe Ruth: His Early Life and Baseball Career, from the Memoirs of a Xaverian Brother. (Book Reviews).

Nine | September 22, 2001| | Copyright

Brother Gilbert, CFX. Young Babe Ruth: His Early Life and Baseball Career, from the Memoirs of a Xaverian Brother. Edited by Harry Rothgerber. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 1999. 204 pp. Paper, $24.95.

It is difficult to imagine that anything new could be added to the existing literature on Babe Ruth. However, as Robert Creamer, his foremost biographer, noted in Babe: The Legend Comes to Life: "The first twenty years of Ruth's existence are a shifting melange of elusive facts, erratic data, supposition and unsubstantiated invention. There are a few hooks to hang things ...

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