Guernsey Van Riper Jr.

About The Author

Guernsey Van Riper, Jr. attended DePauw University in 1926. He earned two varsity letters as quarterback on the football team and one letter as a first baseman on the baseball team. After graduating, he worked in advertising then became an editor at Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company. He turned his love of sports into books, writing biographies of Lou Gehrig and Knute Rockne along with ten other children’s books.

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Childhood of Famous Americans

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Books by Guernsey Van Riper Jr.

Babe Ruth

By Guernsey Van Riper Jr.

Illustrated by Seymour Fleishman

Discover the childhood of Babe Ruth, baseball legend and American history all-star.

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