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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“A thoroughly agreeable and digressive trip down memory lane with a lifelong fan of the national pastime…[a] blow-by-blow account of a glorious time.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A thoroughly agreeable and digressive trip down memory lane with a lifelong fan of the national pastime…[a] blow-by-blow account of a glorious time.”
“A memorable book.”
“This is a baseball book, but whether Creamer intended it or not, it’s much, much more.”
" Poignant memoir of what it was like to be an American in the months leading up to war, through the lens of the authors love for the last baseball season of his youth. "
" I read this as a kid. Loved it. "
Robert W. Creamer (1922-2012) was an American sportswriter, author, and editor. He spent most of his career at Sports Illustrated. 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.
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.
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