End of Baseball

Name: End of Baseball
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ISBN: 9781566638487

ISBN-10: 1566638488

ISBN-13: 9781566638487

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Schilling

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In Peter Schilling's wonderful novel, the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and500 to his name, has hustled his way into buying the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary stars of the Negro Leagues, fielding a club that will go down in baseball annals as one of the greatest ever to play the game. Here are the behind-the-scenes adventures that bring this dream to reality, and a cast of characters only history's pen could create. The End of Baseball is the most rollicking, free-spirited baseball…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 3/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English