Tag: Baseball

June 26, 2023

The End of Baseball A Novel

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Free Download Peter Schilling Jr., "The End of Baseball: A Novel"
English | ISBN: 1566638488 | 2010 | 352 pages | EPUB | 1534 KB
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.

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April 10, 2023

1930 The Story of a Baseball Season When Hitters Reigned Supreme

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Free Download 1930: The Story of a Baseball Season When Hitters Reigned Supreme by Lew Freedman
English | August 31, 2021 | ISBN: 1683584201 | 312 pages | EPUB | 1.15 Mb
The 1930 Major League baseball season was both marvelous and horrendous, great for hitters, embarrassing for pitchers. In totality it was just this side of insane as an outlier among all seasons.

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