Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924 Reed Browning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browning, Reed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington Senators (Baseball team : 1886-1960).

Baseball--United States--History--20th century.

Baseball.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 205 p., [16] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No season in the history of baseball matched 1924 for escalating excitement and emotional investment by fans. It began with observers expecting yet another World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. It ended months later when the perennially hapless Washington Nationals (Senators), making their first Series appearance, grabbed the world championship by scoring the season-ending run on an improbable play in the bottom of the twelfth inning of the seventh game. In alternating chapters of narrative and analysis, Reed Browning explains how the 1924 season marked the last time a team playing old-fashioned inside baseball won the championship. Along the way, the season featured two taut September pennant races and a variety of compelling human interest stories: George Sisler failing to recover his once incomparable batting eye after a sinus infection; Rogers Hornsby batting 424, a figure no player has matched since; Babe Ruth overcoming injuries in the opening and closing phases of the season to win his only batting crown; Dazzy Vance registering one of the greatest seasons that any post-deadball pitcher has ever chalked up; and the revered Walter Johnson, presumed over the hill,

Contents:

Waiting for the cry, "play ball!"

From opening day to Memorial Day

The business of baseball

From Memorial Day to Independence Day

The players

From Independence Day to Labor Day

The game of baseball in the 1920s

From Labor Day to the end of the season

The season in review

The World Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-197) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-076-0

OCLC:

606976423