The End of Baseball: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Schilling Jr., Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1566637821 ISBN 13 : 9781566637824

Editeur : Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

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 and $500 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 story in years, the unvarnished truth of that incredible season and the men who lived it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Schilling Jr. has covered professional baseball online, in magazines, and in newspapers. He lives in a suburb of Minneapolis, where he writes on sports, film, and a variety of cultural concerns. This is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566637821
• ISBN 13: 9781566637824
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible