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2 reviews
Cass Pennant

John Blake, 2008

What a read
When i started reading this book i thought it would be about a MORONIC FOOTBALL THUG that all the media wants us to believe they are, but this is how CASS found true friends at West Ham, who didn't care about his colour but just the love of his team and how he grew up amongs racists,football rivals and police prejedice and came out a proud person and a loving parent. Excellent reading

Wrigley Field's Last World Series: The Wartime Chicago Cubs and the Pennant of 1945

2 reviews
Charles N. Billington

Lake Claremont Press, 2005

Especially recommended reading for Cubs fans
Wrigley Field's Last World Series: The Wartime Chicago Cubs And The Pennant Of 1945 is an in-depth analysis of the Cubs' greatest year in baseball history - with a summary of the causes of the team's decline in all the decades to follow. As World War II was coming to an end, the Cubs' were at their very best; Wrigley Field's Last World Series follows their efforts month by month until their ...

The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant

5 reviews
Douglass Wallop

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

Best 50 year-old Faustian retell
I first read this as a kid, and loved it then. It's a happy thought that, 50 years ago, the greatest desire a man could aspire to was to have his underdog baseball team beat the undeafeated Yankees, and was willing to sell his sould to the Devil for it. Today he'd probably want at least one oil-producing country. Well written, entertaining and with some great twists, it still remains one of my ...

Pennant Races: Baseball at Its Best

2 reviews
Dave Anderson

BBS Publishing Corporation, 1997

Riling Giants and Other Stories
Pulitzer Prize winning sportswriter Dave Anderson of the New York Times supplies readers with a wide variety of stories about the leading pennant races in baseball history. His succinct sportswriter's prose is ideal to depict time ticking events in the hot, humid days of summer as races move toward dramatic climaxes. The winners will go on to the World Series while the losers go home to ...

Pennant Race

4 reviews
Jim Brosnan

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004

The Best Baseball Book
Pennant Race and its companion book, The Long Season, are the best baseball books ever written. I enjoyed Ball Four, written ten yeras after The Long Season, but it is a pale imitation. Brosnan's style and perspective are unique; his blend of candor and cynicisn unmatched; his writing subtleties are brilliant. I have read hundreds of baseball books, and these two, which I basically consider ...

Chasing October: The Dodgers-Giants Pennant Race of 1962

2 reviews
David Plaut

Diamond Communications, 1994

A Painful, Glorious Account of When Baseball Mattered Most
During the summer of 1962 I was 11 years old, and baseball was the most important thing in my life. That summer I listened to every Dodger game and lived and died with every pitch. I knew all the players in both major leagues, but the Dodgers were my life. I can still remember the Koufax no-hitter against the Mets, the sweep of the Giants in L.A., and getting swept by them in S.F., and the ...

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book

5 reviews
The Baseball Prospectus T, Jonah Keri

Basic Books, 2008

entertaining
This is a good book for those who enjoy baseball stats--the WARPs, VORPs, pythagorean expectations and the like. It looks at a number of pennant races and has analyses of those races. It also has some very interesting analyses of related and unrelated topics as well. One of the more enjoyable sections involves an "antipennant" to see who would "win" the rating of the worst baseball team (not ...

The Great Chase: The Dodgers-Giants Pennant Race of 1951
Harvey Rosenfeld

AuthorHouse, 2001

"Thomson hits a long drive. It's going to be, I believe... The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! Bobby Thomson hit one into the lower deck of the left-field stands. The Giants win the pennant!¿ -Russ Hodges, New York Giants broadcaster. On October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world¿ ended one of the most dramatic pennant races ever. Interviews, contemporary newspaper articles and memoirs of the ...

The Million-to-One Team: Why the Chicago Cubs Haven't Won a Pennant Since 1945

3 reviews
George Castle

Diamond Communications, 2000

Must Have for Cubs Fans
The million to one team is probably the best book ever written on the Chicago Cubs. It goes through the problems the cubs have endured throughout their history, but doesn't dwell on them. It rather shows the missed opportunities that the management has gone through, and that we, as fans, should remain hopeful. George Castle goes through the trials and tribulations of the entire cubs history, and ...

Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957

Tribute Books, 2007

"No baseball summer is as memorable for me as that July when the Dodgers began a winning streak in a suddenly torrid, topsy-turvy National League pennant race." Fifty years after they played their last baseball game, the Brooklyn Dodgers are still remembered by millions of people. From 1947 to 1956 the Dodgers captured six out of ten National League pennants and they defeated the mighty New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series. The year 1957, ...

Congratulations, You Have Just Met the I. C. F.

8 reviews
Cass Pennant

John Blake Publishing, Limited, 2003

Excellent from start to finish
Its not unusual to see black people at football matches these days but back in the 70's and early 80's there were a lot of skinheads on the terraces and they were mostly extreme right wing racists. I didn't go to football at all in the UK in the 70's but I remember going to see my first England match in 85 and being quite shocked by some of the racist chanting from some sections of the ...

Down to the Wire: BASEBALL'S GREAT PENNANT RACES (DK READERS)
DK Publishing

DK CHILDREN, 2004

The championship chase brings out the best in baseball teams and players. Who will come out on top? DK Readers is a multi-level learning-to-read program combining DK's highly visual style with appealing stories at four graduated levels. Stunning photographs and engaging, age-appropriate stories are guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge. DK Readers allow progression from stories for ...

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