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The End of Baseball (Paperback)

By: Peter Schilling (Author)


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"Sportswriter [Peter] Schilling has written one of the best baseball novels since Howard Frank Mosher's WAITING FOR TEDDY WILLIAMS."

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THE END OF BASEBALL imagines a parallel sports reality where the ambitious and idealistic owner of the 1944 Philadelphia Athletics recruits legendary real-life black players (Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, etc.) from the Negro League and romps into the playoffs despite the vicious machinations of the racist commissioner.

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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