Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924 - Browning, Reed
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With the possible exception of 2004 no season in the history of baseball has 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 Washington Nationals (Senators), making their first Series appearance, grabbed the world championship by scoring the season-ending run on an impropable play in the bottom of the twelft inning of the seventh game. On the eve of the return of major league baseball to Washington, D.C.. "Baseball's Greatest Season recovers the…mehr

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With the possible exception of 2004 no season in the history of baseball has 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 Washington Nationals (Senators), making their first Series appearance, grabbed the world championship by scoring the season-ending run on an impropable play in the bottom of the twelft inning of the seventh game. On the eve of the return of major league baseball to Washington, D.C.. "Baseball's Greatest Season recovers the memory of the one and only time when the championship of the national pastime resided in the nation's capital.
Autorenporträt
Reed Browning is professor of history and former provost at Kenyon College. He is author of Cy Young: A Baseball Life as well as several books on European history.