If you liked Wait Until Next Year, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, you might like:
Spokane Valley Library Book Club selection for Wednesday, October 17 t 2pm. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Barry, Dan | | Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game | | Because of a rule-book glitch, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings played for 33 innings on a chilly Saturday night into the Easter morning of 1981, in a minor-league baseball game that seemed to play on forever. |
|  | Goodwin, Doris Kearns | | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | | Goodwin weaves together pictures of Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war, and of the time during which a new, modern America was born. |
|  | Heidenry, John | | The Gashouse Gang | | The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, the "immortal, implausible, impossible gang of ballplayers’ known as The Gashouse Gang," are among the best known of all baseball teams, and not only because of their dramatic World Series win over the Detroit Tigers. |
|  | Kahn, Roger | | The Boys of Summer | | A story of the young men who played for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fieldded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson, and what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. |
|  | King, Kevin | | All the Stars Came Out at Night | | Imagines a late-night baseball game bankrolled by Henry Ford, pitting Dizzy Dean’s all-white all-stars against Satchel Paige’s black all-stars -- not a contest waged for money or trophies, the outcome of this game carries with it both the weight of a historic injustice, the barring of blacks from baseball, and the promise of findication and redemption. |
|  | King, Stephen | | Blockade Billy | | William "Blockade Billy" Blakely may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name -- he was the first and only player to have his existence completely removed from the record books -- the haunting story of the greatest Major League baseball player ever to be erased from the game. |
|  | Kinsella, W. P. | | Shoeless Joe | | "If you build it, he will come" -- with these mysterious words, spoken by an Iowa baseball announcer, Ray Kinsella is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson. |
|  | Leavy, Jane | | The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood | | Number 7, from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League’s Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth’s home run crown in the summer of 1961 -- a boy who would never grow up. |
|  | Malamud, Bernard | | The Natural | | Roy Hobbs is a superbly gifted natural at baseball, but his career is sidetracked when a crazed woman that kills famous sports athletes with a silver bulleted gun, takes him out of the action right before his tryout with the Chicago Cubs. |
|  | McGee, Bob | | The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers | | Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche in the game’s legacy and the American imagination, in this lively story of sports, politics, and the talented, hilarious, and charming characters associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers. |
|  | Torre, Joe | | The Yankee Years | | When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, following 17 other managers who had tried to takje the helm of America’s most famous baseball team, they had not won a World Series in eighteen years -- and he left the team after 12 triumphant seasons, as one of the most beloved managers in baseball. |
|  | Vaccaro, Mike | | 1041, the Greatest Year in Sports | | In the summer of 1941, World War II was raging in Europe and headlines grew worse by the day -- in sports pages and arenas at home, however, an athletic perfect storm provided unexpected and uplifing relief, as four phenomenal sporting events were underway, each destined to become legend. |
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