Pennant Race

<p><strong>Brosnan obviously knows his baseball writes about it wittily informally and with irony. He is a cynical tough professional athlete and his book makes wonderful reading.--<em>New Yorker</em></strong></p><p>From the author of <em>The Long Season</em>--considered by many to be the greatest baseball book of all time--comes another classic sports memoir by legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan which chronicles how his team the Cincinnati Reds went on to win the 1961 National League pennant.</p><p>In <em>Pennant Race</em> Brosnan--with his trademark wise-guy wit and plain-spoken practicality--once again offers a refreshingly candid alternative to hackneyed baseball mythologizing. Day by day game by game Brosnan reveals the real lives of professional ballplayers: their exhilaration and frustration hope and despair chronic worry over job security playful camaraderie world-weary cynicism and boyish--if cautious--optimism. Although the Reds would ultimately lose the World Series to the Yankees for Brosnan and his teammates this was a winning season. </p><p><em>Pennant Race</em> vividly captures a remarkable year in the life of a ball club and the golden age of one of Major League Baseball's most memorable eras.</p>