The End of Baseball: A Novel

The End of Baseball: A Novel

by Peter Schilling Jr.
The End of Baseball: A Novel

The End of Baseball: A Novel

by Peter Schilling Jr.

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781566638487
Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date: 03/16/2010
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About 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.

What People are Saying About This

Brad Zellar

"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, The Rake)

Paul Dickson

"[The End of Baseball] captures the mood and feel of a time like no other baseball novel I have ever read. You are hooked quickly and for the duration. It reminds me of the thrill I got when I first read E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime."--(Paul Dickson, author of The Bonus Army, An American Epic and The Hidden Language of Baseball)

Jonathan Eig

"Peter Schilling's historical baseball novel is a blast. Like a Satchel Paige flutter ball, it amuses and beguiles with every sharp turn. It's perfect for baseball lovers, but it will entertain anyone who loves a good story. Filled with wonderful characters and lively writing, [The End of Baseball] is the best baseball novel I've read in years."--(Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig)

Peter Golenbock

"I always wished I could have spent time in the Negro Leagues, and I always wanted to hang out with Bill Veeck. In Peter Schilling's work of inventive history, [The End of Baseball], I was allowed to do both, and I thank him for that. If you ever wondered what might have happened if Veeck had succeeded in an attempt to buy the A's and fill the roster with Negro League stars, here's a chance to find out. Enjoy the journey."--(Peter Golenbock, author of Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Dynasty: the New York Yankees, 1949-1964)

Chrissie Bonnes

"The detail paid to each character, making each unique, and making many both hero and villain, will mesmerize any reader."--(Chrissie Bonnes, Minnesota Game Day)

Jim Bouton

"[The End of Baseball] reminded me of the books on the shelf at my Grandfather's house. Schilling captures the period beautifully. A wonderful story."--(Jim Bouton, author of Ball Four and Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark)

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