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A Children's Book Council Hot of the Press SelectionIt’s Opening Day! Yankee Stadium towers grand, gleaming, and ready! On April 18, 1923, the New York Yankees played against the Boston Red Sox in their very first game in the brand-new Yankee Stadium. All the key players were there—future Hall of Famers Babe Ruth, Waite Hoyt, Bob Shawkey, Miller Huggins—and so were the supporters—Eddie Bennett, the legendary Yankee batboy; Jack Lenz, Yankee Stadium’s first public announcer; five-year-old Little Ray Kelly, Babe’s lucky charm; and more than 70,000 fans! Every person in the stadium on opening day was part of this legendary event, and now you can be too. With beautiful, true-to-event illustrations reminiscent of Norman Rockwell, and with facts on every page about the stadium, the teams, and that very first fateful game that christened the original Yankee Stadium, The House That Ruth Built is the perfect book for kids and baseball fans everywhere. Take a step into the past and watch the baseball greats make history!
Kelly Bennett “hit it out of the park” in her nostalgic, informative, and fun picture book, The House That Ruth Built. Baseball fans young and old will enjoy this journey back to the early days of baseball when inaugural Baseball Hall of Famer and iconic slugger Babe Ruth rocked the brand-new Yankee Stadium. Buy you some peanuts and Cracker Jack and sit down with your kids or grandkids to relive a historic baseball game beautifully told by Kelly and illustrated by Susana Covelli. Enjoy re-reading this book to digest the many interesting facts and history of America’s beloved sport.