The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age
Autor Robert Weintrauben Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2014
In the spring of 1946, Americans were ready to heal. The war was finally over, and as America's fathers and brothers were coming home so too were baseball's greats. Ted Williams, Stan Musial, and Joe DiMaggio returned with bats blazing, making the season a true classic that ended in a thrilling seven-game World Series. America also witnessed the beginning of a new era in baseball- it was a year of attendance records, the first year Yankee Stadium held night games, the last year the Green Monster wasn't green, and Jackie Robinson's first year playing in the Brooklyn Dodgers' system.
THE VICTORY SEASON thrillingly recounts these years of baseball and war, including the little-known "world series" that servicemen played in a captured Hitler Youth stadium in the fall of 1945. Robert Weintraub's extensive research and vibrant storytelling enliven the legendary season that embodies what we now think of as the game's golden era.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316205894
ISBN-10: 0316205893
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316205893
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Robert
Weintraub
is
the
author
ofThe
House
That
Ruth
Builtand
is
a
frequent
contributor
toThe
New
York
Timessports
pages.
He
is
a
sports
columnist
forSlate,
and
his
writing
has
also
aired
on
ESPN,
ABC
Sports,
CBS
Sports,
and
dozens
of
other
outlets.
He
lives
in
Decatur,
Georgia.
Recenzii
"Robert
Weintraub
recounts
the
game's
joyous
reacclimatization,
duly
honoring
the
fine
record
of
service
of
many
players,
shedding
light
on
veteran
returns
and
underscoring
significant
contemporary
events....
Admirably
wide-ranging."
--New
York
Times
Book
Review
"A meticulously researched and elegantly written chronicle of what happened in 1946... From start to finish,The Victory Seasonis a home run." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Weintraub loads the bases with the kind of entertaining anecdotes, minutia and quotes that separate baseball -- and baseball writing -- from other sports, and he skillfully captures the facts and texture of the '46 season with meticulous research and a conversational style. Weintraub is a big-league storyteller." --USA Today
"Weintraub tells myriad good stories. If you want generous context for a great season of baseball when it was still the national pastime and the country was in fascinating flux, Weintraub is your man." --Washington Post
"As Robert Weintraub's measured, elegant prose illustrates, "The Victory Season" makes an irrefutable case that baseball's golden age begins in 1946. Grade: Grand slam." -- Mark Hodermarsky,Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A beautifully written paean to the 1946 baseball season, when normalcy returned to the national pastime." -- Mike Vaccaro,New York Post
"The Victory Seasonleaps off the page like a newsreel." -- Allen Barra,Chicago Tribune
"The baseball history makes great reading, but the larger story of our sometimes painful transition to peacetime gives the book its staying power. Fine popular history." --Booklist(starred review)
"We see a lot of baseball books each spring, but few will be more supremely entertaining thanThe Victory Season... Impossibly charming... A winning account." --Newsday
"Even if you think you know the history of baseball, Weintraub will surprise you with many gems from his meticulous research.The Victory Seasonis an important work featuring an all-star cast." -- James Miller, co-author ofThose Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
"There was more to baseball in 1946 than Ted Williams and Stan Musial marching home from war. The tectonic plates were shifting beneath the game's surface as the color line developed its first cracks and greedy team owners unwittingly inspired baseball's labor movement. With a Halberstam-like sense of purpose, Robert Weintraub captures it all inThe Victory Season." -- John Schulian, co-editor ofAt the Fights,author ofSometimes They Even Shook Your Hand
"Bright writing and the sweat of painstaking research bring baseball's Greatest Generation to life in this tale of a poignant and pivotal season in the game's history. Robert Weintraub's magic trick is to make you feel as if you're watching Leo Durocher, Ted Williams and company in real time." -- John Eisenberg, author ofTen-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future
"In the tradition of Robert W. Creamer's classic 'Baseball in '41,' Robert Weintraub's 'The Victory Season' doesn't merely revisit a pivotal baseball season, it places that season in a larger historical and cultural context. It is a season - and a book - to be relished, as America returns to a very familiar place: at home, at peace, and ready to follow DiMaggio, Musial, Williams, and their compatriots across another glorious summer." -- Michael MacCambridge, author ofAmerica's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured A Nation
"Rob Weintraub has written a fascinating tale of a pivotal year for baseball and America. The research and storytelling are first-rate." -- Jonathan Eig,New York Timesbestselling author ofLuckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou GehrigandOpening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
"Weintraub recounts the game's joyous reacclimatization, paying particular attention to three teams: Ted Williams's mighty Boston Red Sox, Stan Musial's St. Louis Cardinals and Leo Durocher's upstart Dodgers."—New York Times Book Review's"Paperback Row"
"A meticulously researched and elegantly written chronicle of what happened in 1946... From start to finish,The Victory Seasonis a home run." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Weintraub loads the bases with the kind of entertaining anecdotes, minutia and quotes that separate baseball -- and baseball writing -- from other sports, and he skillfully captures the facts and texture of the '46 season with meticulous research and a conversational style. Weintraub is a big-league storyteller." --USA Today
"Weintraub tells myriad good stories. If you want generous context for a great season of baseball when it was still the national pastime and the country was in fascinating flux, Weintraub is your man." --Washington Post
"As Robert Weintraub's measured, elegant prose illustrates, "The Victory Season" makes an irrefutable case that baseball's golden age begins in 1946. Grade: Grand slam." -- Mark Hodermarsky,Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A beautifully written paean to the 1946 baseball season, when normalcy returned to the national pastime." -- Mike Vaccaro,New York Post
"The Victory Seasonleaps off the page like a newsreel." -- Allen Barra,Chicago Tribune
"The baseball history makes great reading, but the larger story of our sometimes painful transition to peacetime gives the book its staying power. Fine popular history." --Booklist(starred review)
"We see a lot of baseball books each spring, but few will be more supremely entertaining thanThe Victory Season... Impossibly charming... A winning account." --Newsday
"Even if you think you know the history of baseball, Weintraub will surprise you with many gems from his meticulous research.The Victory Seasonis an important work featuring an all-star cast." -- James Miller, co-author ofThose Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
"There was more to baseball in 1946 than Ted Williams and Stan Musial marching home from war. The tectonic plates were shifting beneath the game's surface as the color line developed its first cracks and greedy team owners unwittingly inspired baseball's labor movement. With a Halberstam-like sense of purpose, Robert Weintraub captures it all inThe Victory Season." -- John Schulian, co-editor ofAt the Fights,author ofSometimes They Even Shook Your Hand
"Bright writing and the sweat of painstaking research bring baseball's Greatest Generation to life in this tale of a poignant and pivotal season in the game's history. Robert Weintraub's magic trick is to make you feel as if you're watching Leo Durocher, Ted Williams and company in real time." -- John Eisenberg, author ofTen-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future
"In the tradition of Robert W. Creamer's classic 'Baseball in '41,' Robert Weintraub's 'The Victory Season' doesn't merely revisit a pivotal baseball season, it places that season in a larger historical and cultural context. It is a season - and a book - to be relished, as America returns to a very familiar place: at home, at peace, and ready to follow DiMaggio, Musial, Williams, and their compatriots across another glorious summer." -- Michael MacCambridge, author ofAmerica's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured A Nation
"Rob Weintraub has written a fascinating tale of a pivotal year for baseball and America. The research and storytelling are first-rate." -- Jonathan Eig,New York Timesbestselling author ofLuckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou GehrigandOpening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
"Weintraub recounts the game's joyous reacclimatization, paying particular attention to three teams: Ted Williams's mighty Boston Red Sox, Stan Musial's St. Louis Cardinals and Leo Durocher's upstart Dodgers."—New York Times Book Review's"Paperback Row"