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Cargando... More than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human Historypor David W. Anderson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If you remember the great Merkle "boner" which cost the Giants the 1908 pennant, you might have an interest in this book. It is a story of the 1908 baseball season, particularly the National League pennant race. Shockingly enough, it was the end of the Cubs dynasty of 1906-08, and they haven't won a championship since. David Anderson tells a good story, and has done a super job of scavenging up some great statistics to share in the appendix. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"The arrival of a new baseball season serves to rekindle an old question: Which was the most exciting season ever played? In a book called More Than Merkle, David W. Anderson comes up with an answer that will startle many fans: the season of 1908. Just to make things perfectly clear, he subtitles his opus 'A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History.' Of course, the centerpiece is Fred 'Bonehead' Merkle, whose 'boner' of not running from first to second base while the winning run was scoring cost the New York Giants a pennant. Both leagues had close races that year, and the author covers them in exuberant detail. He also focuses on such star players as Christy Mathewson, Three-Finger Brown and Johnny Evers, not to mention more obscure figures, such as a pitcher with the fascinating name of Orval Overall, who won two games for the Chicago Cubs in the World Series (their last World Championship). Baseball antiquarians will relish the book."--Parade No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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