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The End of Baseball
Peter Schilling
其他書名
A Novel
出版Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008-03-07
主題Sports & Recreation / Baseball / GeneralSports & Recreation / Baseball / History
ISBN97816157803961615780394
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=acq_q6DybLEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 is the most rollicking, free-spirited baseball story in years, the unvarnished truth of that incredible season and the men who lived it.