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Schilling, Peter, Jr. - The End of Baseball. A Novel.  - 9781566638487 - V9781566638487
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The End of Baseball. A Novel.

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Description for The End of Baseball. A Novel. Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New Amsterdam Books United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566638487
SKU
V9781566638487
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Schilling, Peter, Jr.
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.

Reviews for The End of Baseball. A Novel.
Just as the exploits of the great players of the Negro Leagues have assumed the status of mythology, the Bill Veeck of the stories most of us have received secondhand has always seemed like a character from the imagination of a first rate novelist. Peter Schilling's fine book stirs all that wonderful, received folklore into a classic what-if tale. People ... Read more

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