Baseball in '41

Name: Baseball in '41
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert W. Creamer
ISBN: 9781455100750

Author: Robert W. Creamer

Narrator: Tom Parker

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

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.

About Robert W. Creamer

Robert W. Creamer (1922-2012) was an American sportswriter, author, and editor. He spent most of his career at Sports Illustrated. He was one of the first hired on the staff of Sports Illustrated in 1954 and served the magazine as a senior editor until 1984. Also an accomplished author, he wrote the most definitive biography of Babe Ruth, entitled Babe, in 1974.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian

He says is not a social history of 1941, avers to describe what WE were listening to because individual tastes could differ. I think the book could have been strengthened with a little more social history for context. Inversely, we could have gotten to know DiMaggio and Williams more.......more

Goodreads review by Fred

Robert Creamer has spent his life writing about sports in general and baseball in particular. But in this account of the 1941 baseball season he writes not just as a journalist, but as one who experienced the year first hand. The beauty and charm of this book is that Creamer is very open about his d......more

Goodreads review by Noah

War was on its way for the United States in 1941. The people who packed ballparks that baseball season didn't know that the year would end with Pearl Harbor, but they could see the coming war in the ways that it began to intrude even in the national passtime. It was the year that Hank Greenberg was......more

Goodreads review by Dave

Not a bad story of an interesting year in baseball and the USA. Recounting the 56 game hit streak of Joe DiMaggio, the last .400+ season of Ted Williams and the resurgence of the Brooklyn Dodgers is decent if not dry at times. The backdrop of the Americans slow joining in World War II gives the stor......more