The End of Baseball: A Novel
by Peter Schilling, Jr. | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1566637821 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1566637821 Global Overview for this book
Registered by awaywithfairies of Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on 11/17/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by awaywithfairies from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Friday, November 17, 2017
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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 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.
Bought at the Blacktown City Library book sale.
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.
Bought at the Blacktown City Library book sale.
Journal Entry 2 by awaywithfairies at Newington Community Centre in Newington, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, November 18, 2017