Then he recast himself by leaving the detective format, making his popular breakthrough with the powerful Mystic River (2001). Lehane launched his career with a series of detective novels that showed he could write better than most. Though the Boston novelist isn’t equating his achievement with Ruth’s, there are some striking parallels between the two. Ruth opens, closes and makes occasional appearances throughout The Given Day, a historical epic that is easily the most ambitious work of Dennis Lehane’s career. Then he recast himself, dominating the game as a slugger, hitting homers at a previously unimaginable clip, setting records that would stand for decades. He began as a very good pitcher who could hit better than most. No baseball player has ever enjoyed a paradigm-shifting career like Babe Ruth’s.
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