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John Kuenster

Heartbreakers

Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats

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Bobby Thomson's home run in the ninth to beat Brooklyn and give the Giants the 1951 National League pennant. Bill Mazeroski's ninth-inning homer for Pittsburgh to beat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series. The Mets' amazing 1969 stretch drive. It's the winners we remember in baseball's most dramatic episodes. But baseball being a game of inches, it's often a fine line between victory and defeat. Losing is unexpected, unpredictable, frequently a consequence of fickle fate. The game is designed to break your heart, Bart Giamatti said. In Heartbreakers, veteran baseball writer John Kuenster recalls fifteen of the game's most painful disasters of… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-56663-412-0
  • EAN: 9781566634120
  • Produktnummer: 9667092
  • Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 446 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 446

Über den Autor


John Kuenster is editor of Baseball Digest and a former staff writer and columnist for the Chicago Daily News. He has written extensively for newspapers and magazines and is also co-author of To Sleep with the Angels, the story of the Our Lady of the Angels school fire.

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