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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 Deep in the Heart of Texas
- 2 Seventh Game in Santo Domingo
- 3 From the Oval Office to the Stork Club
- 4 Surrounded by Swamps
- 5 Office of the Commissioner
- 6 Winning a Bet with God
- 7 Two Opening Days
- 8 Gotham
- 9 The Unraveling
- 10 Arsenal of Democracy
- 11 Unveiling the Secret Weapon
- 12 Tormented in St. Louis
- 13 Wheel of Fortune
- 14 Sam, Wheeling and Dealing
- 15 Satchel vs. Josh
- 16 Port Chicago
- 17 Fan Appreciation Day
- 18 Season’s End
- 19 Gone