The 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.