1960 The Last Pure Season

Name: 1960 The Last Pure Season
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ISBN: 9781613213575

ISBN-10: 1613213573

ISBN-13: 9781613213575

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Authors: Kerry Keene, Dick Groat

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1960: The Last Pure Season is the most complete work ever about one of baseball’s most glorious campaigns. There was Pittsburgh’s shocking World Series victory over the indomitable Yankees, Ted Williams’s legendary final season, a classic homerun derby, the formation and ultimate disbanding of Branch Rickey’s proposed Continental League, and the birth of baseball’s Twins and Angels. This was the last season when the original National and American League teams were intact; the next year baseball began its expansion which eventually led to baseball “play-offs” and league “Divisions.” It was a time when most of the game’s players earned salaries about twenty-five times that of the average…

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List price: $19.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Kerry Keene is a freelance writer and sports historian. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Keene lives in Raynham, Massachusetts.

Dick Groat played in the MLB for 15 years and was named National League MVP in 1960. He currently does color commentary for the Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team.



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction


Prologue



Setting the Stage



An Abundance of Fame in the Game



Theatres of the Game



Play Ball! Glimpses from Opening Week



The Kid's Swan Song



Dominican Dandy's Dazzling Debut



Home Runs-Milestones and a Derby



Midsummer Classics-Parts I and II



R.I.P. Continental League-We Hardly Knew Ye



27 Innings, No Hits-3 No-No's



Jackie's Legacy Grows



Game Bids Goodbye to Two Old-Time Greats



Managerial Maneuvering



"Beat 'em Bucs"! A Banner for Steel City



25th Flag Flies at Ruth's House



Bucs Defy the Numbers



Shake-up in the Bronx



Handing out the Hardware



AL Gives Birth to Twins (Senators and Angels)



Reflections of a Year for the Ages


Appendices


Index