Baseball's Greatest Comeback
The Miracle Braves of 1914
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- 49,99 €
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- 49,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Baseball’s Greatest Comeback recounts the story of the 1914 Boston Braves that experienced the greatest come-from-behind season ever witnessed in baseball history. A perennially woeful team, the Braves rose from the ashes of last place—fifteen games behind on July 4th—to battle in the World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics, one of the most dominant teams of all time. Baseball fans witnessed one of sport’s most spectacular comebacks, and Boston’s National League team earned a new designation: “The Miracle Braves.” Full of timeless images and memorable characters—including a fanatically superstitious manager, a cheerfully madcap star, and an obsessively driven, yet highly sensitive captain—this book will inform and entertain baseball fans and sports historians alike.
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Baseball historian and university professor Ross delivers an exciting look at one of the greatest come-from-behind pennant races, when the 1914 Boston Braves, a "perennial woeful team," rose from last place to defeat the New York Giants, "one of the most dominant teams of all time, for the National League crown. Ross's fact-filled but fast-moving account actually completes a double play of its own, skillfully connecting the "Deadball Era" of the early 20th century when pitchers "served up to batters a cut, tobacco-stained, dirt-worn, uneven, split-laden sphere so unhittable that teams scored only a few runs per game with the reform-minded values of the Progressive Era. Along the way, Ross also includes many entertaining stories, most notably the tale of how manager George Stallings got under the skin of Connie Mack, one of "baseball's great gentlemen," when the Braves successfully battled Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series.
