All the Babe’s Men
All the Babe’s Men: From Ruth to Bonds: Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Seasons and How They Changed America
By Eldon L. Ham
Potomac Books, Inc.
All the Babe’s Men demonstrates how the greatest home run seasons of Ruth, Gehrig, Greenberg, Mantle, Maris, Aaron, Sosa-McGwire, and Bonds did more than just change baseball — they influenced who we are as a nation. Baseball trumps all sports where it counts most: deep in America’s gut. We are a nation obsessed by the home run in baseball, business, and life — a capitalist society built to swing for the fences and willing to move those fences to bamboozle a better rip at nirvana. All the Babe’s Men is about how baseball molded us into such a home run society.
The author, Eldon Ham, was one of the first lawyers to challenge the NFL drug policy (Richard Dent v. NFL, 1988) and has represented sports agents and athletes for 20 years, including such luminaries as Kenny Lofton (baseball), Deion Sanders (football), Zucker Sports (agent), and Muhammad Ali. He is the author of The 100 Greatest Sports Blunders of All Time (Master’s Press 1997), The PlayMasters — From Sellouts to Lockouts: An Unauthorized History of the NBA (Contemporary/McGraw-Hill 2000) and Larceny and Old Leather (Academy Chicago 2005), which explores the larcenous legacy of major league baseball from juiced balls to juiced players.
