Michael Shapiro goes inside baseball’s watershed moment in the 1950s. His book Bottom of the Ninth covers the schemes of Branch Rickey and Casey Stengel to save baseball.
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Comments [4]
When one is ninety four years old and adjusting to relocating in your son's home in North Carolina (from Staten Island,NY), and a baseball historian, this will be well received.
Fascinating story -- American history, NYC history. My copy of the book's on order.
Life is a metaphor for baseball. Get with the program Chris.
In all due respect, enough with the baseball talk!!! Can't we space out these types of topics? sigh...
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