Grover Gardner
1) Baseball In '41: A Celebration of the "Best Baseball Season Ever"—In the Year America Went to War
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World series—and that the United States went to war.
In this look at what he calls "the best baseball season ever," Robert Creamer skillfully intertwines all these epochal baseball happenings with an informal history of a pivotal period in American life, as well as with his
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