The Unforgettable Season
by G. H. Fleming
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One of Sports Illustrated's top 100 sports books of all-time The 1908 National League pennant race was without question the most exciting and dramatic battle of all time. Three teams, the Giants, the Cubs, and the Pirates, battled from start to finish, concluding the season with just one game separating them in the standings. The story of this race is like a Hall of Fame sprung to life, including John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, and show more Honus Wagner. Yet the one name that truly stands out belongs to a young Giant rookie, Fred Merkle. His base-running blunder in a key game between the Giants and the Cubs cost the New Yorkers the pennant through an entirely unforeseeable set of circumstances that set off a near-riot in New York. More than mere history, The Unforgettable Season uses a judicious selection of newspaper stories to recreate the unforgettable season through the eyes and florid language of sportswriters of the day. With no film, TV, or radio accounts of the game to cloud readers' minds with facts, the newspaper writers had free reign to invent and embellish the larger-than-life figures and events of 1908. It is their efforts that make this book often unintentionally hilarious and unforgettable. show lessTags
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Being a chronicle of the New York Giants' 1908 season as described by the newspapers of the day. The season was memorable because of its tight three-team pennant race and the attendant Merkle Game, still, fourscore years on, doubtless the most famous baseball game ever played, and, toward the book's end, game narratives are closely interwoven with the league's somewhat fumbling attempts to resolve the contretemps. I enjoyed the book throughout, but it's difficult to recommend to anybody who isn't fully involved with the baseball of the day, as it's a rather long book which describes each and every game the Giants played. It doesn't hurt to enjoy the era's florid sportswriting.
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- Dedication
- To Muggsy and Big Six, To The Iron Man and Turkey Mike, To The Cheif and Laughing Larry, To Pancho and Pep, To The Rajah and Irish Emil, To Highpockets and The Fordham Flash, To King Carl and Prince Hal, To Fat Freddy and Mas... (show all)ter Melvin, To Frisco Lefty and Memphis Bill, To Leo the Lip and Eddie the Brat, To The Barber and The Kid Who Said, "Say Hey!" and to every other New York Baseball Giant this book is gratefully dedicated.
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- Kahn, Roger
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- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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- 796.357 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Ball sports Ball and stick sports Baseball
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- GV875 .A3 .F55 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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