Baseball in ’41: A Celebration of the “Best Baseball Season Ever”—In the Year America Went to War
By Robert W. Creamer
Read by Grover Gardner
Unabridged
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2 Formats: Retail CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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$29.95
ISBN: 9781470888299
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$63.00
ISBN: 9780786159734
| Runtime: | 8.79 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Health & Fitness |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A New York Times Notable Book in 1991
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.
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Author
Author Bio: Robert W. Creamer
Robert W. Creamer is an American sportswriter and editor. He was one of the first hired on the staff of Sports Illustrated in 1954 and served the magazine as a senior editor until 1984. Also an accomplished author, he wrote the most definitive biography of Babe Ruth, entitled Babe, in 1974.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Health & Fitness |
| Runtime: | 8.79 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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