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Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924
Reed Browning
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Description for Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924
Paperback. Baseball's Greatest Season recovers the memory of the one and only time when the championship of the US pastime resided in the nation's capital. No season in the history of baseball has matched 1924 for excitement and emotional investment by fans. Num Pages: 232 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
No season in the history of baseball has matched 1924 for escalating excitement and emotional investment by fans. It began with observers expecting yet another World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. It ended months later when the Washington Nationals (Senators), making their first Series appearance, grabbed the world championship by scoring the season-ending run on an improbable play in the bottom of the twelfth inning of the seventh game. On the eve of the return of major league baseball to Washington, D.C., Baseball's Greatest Season recovers the memory of the one and only time when the championship of ... Read more
No season in the history of baseball has matched 1924 for escalating excitement and emotional investment by fans. It began with observers expecting yet another World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. It ended months later when the Washington Nationals (Senators), making their first Series appearance, grabbed the world championship by scoring the season-ending run on an improbable play in the bottom of the twelfth inning of the seventh game. On the eve of the return of major league baseball to Washington, D.C., Baseball's Greatest Season recovers the memory of the one and only time when the championship of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558494879
SKU
V9781558494879
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About Reed Browning
Reed Browning is professor of history and former provost at Kenyon College. He is author of Cy Young: A Baseball Life as well as several books on European history.
Reviews for Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924
Was 1924 really the greatest season? In a well-argued account, Browning cites as evidence the close races in both leagues and Walter Johnson's seventh-game World Series win for Washington over the Giants.... Browning weaves an appealing story, alternating his narrative chapters with ones about baseball's players, business dealings, and other sidelights.-Library Journal; ""Browning is a graceful and vigorous writer who ... Read more