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The Last Real Season

A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone

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There are baseball books and there are baseball books. But for the baseball cognoscenti, there are just a few "must-have" classics: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton. THE LONG SEASON by Jim Brosnan. WILLIE'S TIME by Charles Einstein. And SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarous first-person account of Mike's travails serving as a daily beat writer covering the hapless 1972 Texas Rangers. ... more

About Author

Don Imus on Seasons in Hell:/ / / "The single funniest sports book I have ever read."/ / / MIKE SHROPSHIRE is a longtime sports columnist who has written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, Playboy and Sports Illustrated.

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Grand Central Publishing
Format:
HARDCOVER BOOK
Publish Date:
5/14/2008
Price:
$25.99/$28.99
ISBN:
9780446401548
Pages:
288
Size:
6" x 9"

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