Ruth Babe - The Big Bam: the life and times of Babe Ruth

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T HANKS AGAIN to Bob Creamer, Kal Wagenheim, and Jerome Holtzman. Thanks, too, to the late Marshall Smelser. The raw material from four books is not a bad start in writing one book. The generosity and encouragement from these writers, who followed the trail of the Babe when it still was reasonably fresh, was a wonder.

Thanks to Jeff Idelson, Claudette Burke, and Jeremy Jones at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Thanks to Faigi Rosenthal and Scott Browne at the library at the New York Daily News, and to Luisa Tuite at the Boston Globe library. Thanks to the staff at the Boston Public Library, the Winthrop, Massachusetts, Public Library, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the library at the University of Notre Dame, the libraries at the Baltimore Sun, the Society for American Baseball Research, and assorted other libraries. Thanks to writers Harry Rothgerber, Paul F. Harris Sr., Jonathan Eig, Chris Martens, Matthew Crenson, Allan Wood, and Wayne Coffey. Thanks to Marty Appel, Esther Newberg, Jenny Choi, and Jason Kaufman.

Also, Clarke Booth, Kevin Connolly, Tommy Shea, Ian Thomsen, Mark Linehan, Kevin McGonagle, Paul Doyle, all members of the Garden Street Athletic Club; my son, Leigh, and my daughter, Robin Moleux, and her husband, Doug. And thanks to anyone else who helped, held my hand, and/or listened to me talk about all this stuff that happened long ago.

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