End of Baseball

In Peter Schilling's wonderful novel the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck the maverick promoter returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his name has hustled his way into buying the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary stars of the Negro Leagues fielding a club that will go down in baseball annals as one of the greatest ever to play the game. Here are the behind-the-scenes adventures that bring this dream to reality and a cast of characters only history's pen could create. The End of Baseball is the most rollicking free-spirited baseball story in years the unvarnished truth of that incredible season and the men who lived it.