Baseball in '41

It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56game hitting streak; Ted Williams batted .406; the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World Series; and America went to war.In this look at what he calls the best baseball season ever, Robert Creamer skillfully intertwines these epochal moments in baseball with an informal history of a pivotal period in American life. Through it all, he recalls what it was like to be eighteen and a baseball fan when the game he loved vied for his attention with a looming war.Baseball in 41 makes us all remember why the game is still the purest representation of the American Dream.