It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World series—and that the United States went to war.
In this look at what he calls "the best baseball season ever, " Robert Creamer skillfully intertwines all these epochal baseball happenings with an informal history of a pivotal period in American life, as well as with his own memories of what it was like to be eighteen and a baseball fan when the game he loved vied for his attention with a looming war.
For all who love baseball, Baseball in '41 makes it clear why the game is still the purest representation of the American Dream.
© 2007 Blackstone Publishing (Buku audio ): 9781481577588
Tanggal rilis
Buku audio : 2 April 2007
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It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World series—and that the United States went to war.
In this look at what he calls "the best baseball season ever, " Robert Creamer skillfully intertwines all these epochal baseball happenings with an informal history of a pivotal period in American life, as well as with his own memories of what it was like to be eighteen and a baseball fan when the game he loved vied for his attention with a looming war.
For all who love baseball, Baseball in '41 makes it clear why the game is still the purest representation of the American Dream.
© 2007 Blackstone Publishing (Buku audio ): 9781481577588
Tanggal rilis
Buku audio : 2 April 2007
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