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High-Flying Birds: The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals (SPORTS & AMERICAN CULTURE)
Jerome M. Mileur
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Hardcover. The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St Louis was determined to stop them. This work provides a game-by-game account of the season with play-by-play action, conveying the physical and mental demands that the players endured. Series: Sports and American Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
1942: Americans suddenly found themselves at war but were not about to be distracted from the National Pastime. The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St. Louis was determined to stop them. With only one player older than thirty, the St. Louis Cardinals were the youngest - and fastest - team to win the National League pennant and World Series. The team featured rookie Stan Musial, future Hall-of-Famer Enos Slaughter, and ace pitcher Mort Cooper, the National League's Most Valuable Player of 1942. ... Read more
1942: Americans suddenly found themselves at war but were not about to be distracted from the National Pastime. The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St. Louis was determined to stop them. With only one player older than thirty, the St. Louis Cardinals were the youngest - and fastest - team to win the National League pennant and World Series. The team featured rookie Stan Musial, future Hall-of-Famer Enos Slaughter, and ace pitcher Mort Cooper, the National League's Most Valuable Player of 1942. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Series
Sports and American Culture Series
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826218346
SKU
V9780826218346
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Ref
99-15
About Jerome M. Mileur
Jerome M. Mileur is the former owner of a Double A Eastern League professional baseball club in the cities of Holyoke, Massachusetts; Nashua, New Hampshire; and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from 1982 to 1995. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
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