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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...

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Overview

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.

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Peter Schilling Jr.…writes a gripping novel that diehard fans and those in search of a great story alike will love.
Baltimore Sun
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, some baseball novels see things as they are and ask why; Pete Schilling Jr.'s brilliantly conceived The End of Baseball sees things that weren't and imagines what could have been. Starting from an unconfirmed baseball legend--that maverick baseball owner Bill Veeck once tried to buy the Philadelphia A's and roster them with Negro League stars--Schilling re-imagines post-1944 America in the wake of an event infinitely more convulsive than Jackie Robinson's signing by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and J. Edgar Hoover (who think Veeck is a Communist) are not happy, and the city of Philadelphia and, eventually, all of America are changed forever by the entry of Negro League stars Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Cuban great Martin Dihigo into the national spotlight. The best baseball novel so far this century.
— Allen Barra
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Booklist
In the ultimate 'woulda-coulda-shoulda' story, the vaunted color line is no match for Veeck's showmanship and unquenchable spirit.
— Wes Lukowsky
Columbus Dispatch
No baseball season would be complete without at least one terrific work of fiction, and Publishers Weekly thinks this is it: 'an exciting, fast-paced story' that is 'a fine commentary on baseball lore, race relations and American sentiment during World War II.' Schilling makes the legendary promoter Bill Veeck the star of his novel, a man so intent on winning a pennant that he recruits stars from the Negro League to play on his club in 1944. It isn't the way things were but the way they should have been.
Courant.Com
Even if you're not a lover of baseball, this book is still a bracing reminder of how people were mistreated just for the color of their skin yet still chose to play a game that brought them great joy….Schilling does a great job of taking the readers inside the skin and minds of the men who really wanted (and deserved) the respect of baseball fans around the world.
— Richard Kamins
Frommer's Book Reviews
An imaginative, thought-provoking novel.
Minnesota Game Day
The detail paid to each character, making each unique, and making many both hero and villain, will mesmerize any reader.
— Chrissie Bonnes
New York Post
No, we're not talking about the Mets collapse last year. In Schilling's novel, set in the 1944 season, baseball maverick Bill Veeck buys the Philadelphia Athletics and, determined to field the best team, recruits ballplayers from the Negro Leagues for his roster (he reportedly considered doing this in real life). Of course, the establishment--the cranky commissioner Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis and even J. Edgar Hoover--is aghast. But readers are sure to cheer both Veeck and players such as Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige in this alternate take on baseball history.
Nine
Offers a glimpse into a world that could have been, and fuels the debate about Bill Veeck and the integration of baseball.
— William E. Aiken
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mainly, as somebody in baseball puts it, The End of Baseball sails straight down central. As somebody else in baseball used to say, it's a winner.
— Harry Levins
Tampa Tribune
Schilling’s talent in this novel is the voice he gives the players–they are believable… Schilling succeeds mightily.
The Rake
Just as the exploits of the great players of the Negro Leagues have assumed the status of mythology, the Bill Veeck of the stories most of us have received secondhand has always seemed like a character from the imagination of a first rate novelist. Peter Schilling's fine book stirs all that wonderful, received folklore into a classic what-if tale. People always say baseball is a game where anything can happen, but there was a time when the most magical thing that might have happened, didn't; The End of Baseball is so engaging and convincing that it accomplishes something truly special: it makes you wish desperately it were true.
— Brad Zellar
Toronto Globe and Mail
Of all sports, rivalled perhaps only by boxing, baseball has the strongest links with literature. Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Bernard Malamud and W. P. Kinsella are among the game's literati. They're joined by Peter Schilling Jr. in The End of Baseball (Ivan R. Dee, 337 pages, $25), set in the war year of 1944, as Bill Veeck (a real and important figure), in the face of opposition from the likes of commie-in-every-closet FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, raids the Negro Leagues for stars like JoshGibson and Satchell Paige.
Winston-Salem Journal
The End of Baseball is a hearty feast for the baseball glutton. Schilling has researched his subject well and has produced a historically water-tight tale, leaving the willing reader to ponder 'What if?'
Publishers Weekly

With this debut, sportswriter Schilling has written one of the best baseball novels since Howard Frank Mosher's Waiting for Teddy Williams. Using actual events, Schilling has fictionalized a fantasy scenario in baseball history-the integration of black players into the major leagues in 1944. Bill Veeck Jr., a Marine veteran from a prestigious baseball family, buys the Philadelphia Athletics in 1943, becoming the youngest man to ever own a major league club. Veeck is a genius at publicity and promotion who wants to win the World Series-but using black players. He signs the best of the Negro League to the Athletics, against all conventional feeling and the opposition of Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, the vicious commissioner of baseball. The Athletics romp through the 1944 season behind the on-and-off diamond antics of real-life stars like Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Roy Campanella, with Veeck struggling to raise money, avoid race riots and flummox Judge Landis. This exciting, fast-paced story is a fine commentary on baseball lore, race relations, and American sentiment during World War II, and it will have the reader hanging on every pitch, wondering how Veeck and his players will overcome racial discrimination to prove they can play in the major leagues. (May)

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Baseball Book Review
Schilling hits a home run with his debut novel.
City Pages
The End of Baseball, when on the field, is one of those books where pages can flip in wonderful three or four pages chunks. Schilling has a great talent for description of in-game storytelling, and also for getting inside both the respective heads of his players and the mood of the dugout.
Frommers Book Reviews
An imaginative, thought-provoking novel.
Hardball Times
The End of Baseball is more than a simple story; it also serves as a reminder of the consequences of indulging, rather than battling against the darker natures that exist within us all…. Peter Schilling Jr. deserves the highest of marks for creating a fictitious history that feels like the genuine article.
— John Brattain
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The world of baseball during World War II provides the atmospheric background for this inspired debut novel that mingles fact and fantasy…Schilling's what-if tale brilliantly re-creates a bygone era.
Kirkus Reviews
A flamboyant visionary tries to make baseball history. Veteran sports journalist and debut novelist Schilling offers a compassionate, enjoyable re-imagining of the early days of baseball. The year 1944 finds oddball baseball promoter Bill Veeck returning from World War II sans one leg but emboldened by a mission to create the first black Major League Baseball team. To surmount the obvious challenges, Veeck pulls the wool over Commissioner Kenesaw Landis's eyes by packing the Philadelphia Athletics with the most prominent athletes from the Philadelphia Stars, a Negro League team. Veeck's dream lineup includes rapid-fire pitcher Satchel Paige, who has a "zeppelin-sized ego" to match, Cuban secret weapon Mart'n Dihigo and a doomed giant of a hitter, Josh Gibson, whose colossal swing rivals Babe Ruth's. Determined to gather only the best players, Veeck soon gets the attention of J. Edgar Hoover, who thinks the promoter's great experiment is a communist plot. The players, meanwhile, are competing with each other; misbehaving in the harsh glare of the national press; and trying to play their best game in American communities where bigotry is threatening to turn ballparks into riot zones. Among the backdrop of patriotic elation, pre-civil rights racism and Cold War paranoia, Schilling's novel offers a deeply inspirational story of faith. A terrific tale. Agent: Paul Bresnick/Paul Bresnick Agency

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781566637824
  • Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
  • Publication date: 4/25/2008
  • Pages: 352
  • Product dimensions: 6.29 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 1.24 (d)

Meet the Author

Peter Schilling Jr. has covered professional baseball online, in magazines, and in newspapers. He lives in a suburb of Minneapolis, where he writes on sports, film, and a variety of cultural concerns. This is his first novel.

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  • Posted December 18, 2008

    Outstanding Baseball Novel

    Peter Schilling¿s baseball novel, The End of Baseball, is an imaginative, electric read rooted in one of the most captivating periods in our national pastime¿s history. Mr. Schilling proves to be most adept at drawing on the events of the past in order to create scenarios that leave the reader musing ¿oh, if only it were true.¿ Schilling is a wonderful artist, one whose canvas is replete with engaging characters, scintillating dialogue, myriad settings and glorious historical cameos. Schilling¿s story is so much more than the tale of Bill Veeck Jr., the Negro Leagues, and the Philadelphia Athletics; alas, like all great baseball novels, Schilling¿s masterpiece transcends the baseball diamond into realms that are both riveting and germane to our day to day existence. Baseball fans, historians, and those with a penchant for analyzing the drama that attenuates the human condition will cheer out loud over this remarkable achievement.

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