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Peter Jr. Schilling

The End of Baseball

A Novel

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-56663-848-7
  • EAN: 9781566638487
  • Produktnummer: 5074297
  • Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 510 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 510

Über den Autor


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.

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