Ebook {Epub PDF} Baseball in 41: a Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever by Robert W. Creamer

Baseball in ' A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever - in the Year America Went to War by Robert W. Creamer (, Trade Paperback) The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable).Brand: Penguin Books. Although the book focuses primarily on the national pastime, it also includes social and political history, for during ``the best baseball season ever,'' Roosevelt readied the country for war. Robert W. Creamer is an old-style sports writer, and this book an exemplar of some of the best writing by those old-style writers. He narrates in compelling fashion the baseball season, the first last before the United States entered World War II and many of the stars of the major leagues marched off to serve in uniform/5(16).

Click to read more about Baseball in ' A Celebration of the "Best Baseball Season Ever" by Robert W. Creamer. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Baseball in ' A Celebration of the "Best Baseball Season Ever by Robert W Creamer ISBN ISBN Hardcover; New York: Viking Adult, ; ISBN Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America's national pastime. Baseball has been around in various forms for thousands of years, but only within the last years has it become an American institution.

Robert W. Creamer, one of the best and most perceptive writers on baseball, remembers the baseball-and other matters-of in a tribute to the game that is also part memoir. Creamer was a long-time writer and editor at Sports Illustrated. 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 a looming war and the game he loved vied for his attention. Robert W. Creamer is an old-style sports writer, and this book an exemplar of some of the best writing by those old-style writers. He narrates in compelling fashion the baseball season, the first last before the United States entered World War II and many of the stars of the major leagues marched off to serve in uniform.