The Real Ruth: 60 Stories of Playing Ball and Raising Hell with the Babe

For readers of Joe Posnanski’s Why We Love Baseball and Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer, The Real Ruth draws on the late Waite Hoyt’s long-hidden archives to reveal an intimate, irreverent portrait of his longtime friend and fellow Hall of Famer Babe Ruth. Its sixty stories celebrate the centennial of Ruth’s record-setting 1927 season.

Babe Ruth and Waite Hoyt are trading punches in the Yankees clubhouse. “Sock ’im, Waite! Sock ’im!” And when Manager Miller Huggins tries to stop the fight . ...