Crazy '08 : how a cast of cranks, rogues, boneheads, and magnates created the greatest year in baseball history / Cait Murphy.
TITLE:
Crazy '08 : how a cast of cranks, rogues, boneheads, and magnates created the greatest year in baseball history / Cait Murphy.
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins,
Physical Description:
368 p. : ill.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 season—the year when Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went toe to toe to toe with John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's New York Giants and Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates in the greatest pennant race the National League has ever seen. The American League has its own three-cornered pennant fight, and players like Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and the egregiously crooked Hal Chase ensured that the junior circuit had its moments. But it was the National League's—and the Cubs'—year.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780060889371
