Babe Ruth: Baseball's All-Time Best! (Show Me History!)
The life story of baseball’s greatest player, in graphic novel format.
Long regarded as the greatest player in baseball history, George Herman “Babe” Ruth transformed the sport with his legendary power and personality. Babe Ruth: Baseball’s All-Time Best! tells the story of Ruth’s life in graphic novel format—from his humble beginnings in Baltimore to superstardom with the New York Yankees. Never one to keep quiet, Babe Ruth was a player whose outsized swing and character made him a star both on and off the field. Baseball fans of all ages will be entertained and educated by the full-color illustrations and historically accurate narrative of this graphical biography.
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The books in the series about Black people or women are so incredibly preachy and shallow it made me think the whole series would be this way. The book about Sacagawea feels off as they never dare to properly touch upon the her being a slave or forced to marry a man and instead she's presented as this infallible hero making it feel off. The Lincoln book just praises him on every page too. Both feel like misguided history books not quite getting the setting across. This one is direct. Babe Ruth is a hero in that he's good at baseball and not a biggot. That's it. The rest is presented fairly. His affairs, his partying, him eating too many hotdogs instead of eating healthy. Him constantly fighting and hitting people on the field. The other books felt extremely child friendly yet this feels more mature as if the author decided, for once, to just tell the real history.
The illustrations are also way better here. The more mature story made the illustrator include actual historical buildings and clothes instead of drawing modern t-shirts and using a lot of modern things in gags. This is more history focused. The overall story is not really deep or historically relevant as such. We mainly get shallow depictions of game outcomes. Don't even learn about how big baseball was or what other historical factors were at play at that time. Rather the text constantly brings up their wages for some reason. It should have been better and referred to the historical setting overall. But its quite acceptable.
The illustrations are also way better here. The more mature story made the illustrator include actual historical buildings and clothes instead of drawing modern t-shirts and using a lot of modern things in gags. This is more history focused. The overall story is not really deep or historically relevant as such. We mainly get shallow depictions of game outcomes. Don't even learn about how big baseball was or what other historical factors were at play at that time. Rather the text constantly brings up their wages for some reason. It should have been better and referred to the historical setting overall. But its quite acceptable.
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