Heartbreakers: Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats

ISBN-13: 9781566634120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str.

John Kuenster

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Bobby Thomson s home run in the ninth to beat Brooklyn and give the Giants the 1951 National League pennant. Bill Mazeroski s ninth-inning homer for Pittsburgh to beat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series. The Mets amazing 1969 stretch drive. It s the winners we remember in baseball s most dramatic episodes. But baseball being a game of inches, it's often a fine line between victory and defeat. Losing is unexpected, unpredictable, frequently a consequence of fickle fate. The game is designed to break your heart, Bart Giamatti said. In Heartbreakers, veteran baseball writer John Kuenster recalls fifteen of the game s most painful disasters of the last half-century and looks at them from the losers point of view. With a reporter s skill and a fan s enthusiasm, he sets the scene for these memorable matchups, surveys the players who led each team to the big moment, and tells the story of the game and the emotions that can t be erased. He has interviewed key players who suffered the defeats, providing personal insights and sometimes surprising perspectives on the game action that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Heartbreakers offers a box seat for and a fresh slant on the replay of baseball s most thrilling games. With 50 black-and-white photographs."