What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports

What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports

by Bill Gutman
What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports

What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports

by Bill Gutman

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Overview

What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston? What if Muhammad Ali had lost or quit in his first fight against Sonny Liston? What if the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had never moved to the West Coast? What if Vince Lombardi had become head coach of his hometown Giants instead of heading to Green Bay? How would sports history, and our perception of it, be different today? These are some of the questions asked and answered in this entertaining book of alternate history, the first book of its kind in the field of sports. It is sure to appeal to every thoughtful sports fan.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626369641
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 06/17/2008
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 628 KB

About the Author

Bill Gutman is a freelance author of more than 20 books for both children and adults including It's Outta Here! The History of the Home Run from Babe Ruth to Barry Bonds and Parcells: A Biography.
Bill Gutman is a longtime freelance writer who has published more than two hundred books for both children and adults, in fiction and nonfiction. He has written biographies of such diverse personalities as Magic Johnson, Bill Parcells, Michael Jordan, jazz great Duke Ellington, Pistol Pete Maravich, and former president Andrew Jackson. In addition, he has worked with the likes of former New York Giants linebacker Pepper Johnson (Won for All: The Inside Story of the New England Patriots’ Improbable Run to the Super Bowl), baseball star Bobby Thomson (The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant!), and former Rangers and Red Sox manager Kevin Kennedy (Twice Around the Bases) on as-told-to books. He has also written numerous sports histories, interviewed former baseball players on their transition to the real world (When the Cheering Stops), spoken with twenty-five extreme-sport, high-risk athletes in the world (Being Extreme), and talked with members of the 1968 New York Jets and 1969 New York Mets (Miracle Year, 1969Amazing Mets and Super Jets). He has also ghosted a family memoir with Thomas and Betty Jones of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. They are the parents of seven children, including former NFL running backs Thomas and Julius Jones (Blessings from the Dust).

Mr. Gutman is currently writing a series of novels and novellas about a New York City detective working in the 1920s (the Mike Fargo Mysteries). Both Duke: The Musical Life of Duke Ellington and Being Extreme are currently available from Open Road Media.

Table of Contents


Introduction     ix
The Boston Babe     1
Clay Gets Crushed     23
New York or Bust     45
Lombardi Comes Home     67
Satch and Josh in '36     87
Thanks, But No Thanks     113
Arnie and Jack Who?     133
Trotting to Chicago     151
The Magic Number     171
The Knicks Reign     195
The Deal's Off     219
Shine On, Superstar     249
About the Author     279
Index     281
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