End of Baseball
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781566638487
- ISBN-10: 1566638488
- Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
- Publish Date: March 2010
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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