Pennant Race - Softcover

Brosnan, Jim

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ISBN 10: 1566635497 ISBN 13: 9781566635493

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004

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The companion piece to his baseball classic The Long Season, Mr. Brosnan's Pennant Race recounts the game-by-game lives of the Cincinnati Reds during their pennant-winning 1961 season. He was a pitcher with Cincinnati that season, but also one of the sharpest and wittiest writers baseball ever produced. One of the best baseball books ever written...probably one of the best American diaries as well. New York Times Book Review.

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From the Back Cover:

With legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan’s first book, The Long Season, he not only entered the canon of great sports literature but also redefined it when he returned two years later to write Pennant Race—a memoir of his days playing for the Cincinnati Reds and how the team went from not being taken seriously as a contender to having a shot at the 1961 National League pennant.

In Pennant Race, Brosnan—with his trademark wise-guy wit and plainspoken practicality—once again offers a refreshingly candid alternative to hackneyed baseball mythologizing. Day by day, game by game, Brosnan reveals the real lives of professional ballplayers: their exhilaration and frustration, hope and despair, chronic worry over job security, playful camaraderie, world-weary cynicism, and boyish—if cautious—optimism. Although the Reds would ultimately lose the World Series to the Yankees, for Brosnan and his teammates, this was a winning season.

Pennant Race vividly captures a remarkable year in the life of a ball club and the golden age of one of Major League Baseball’s most memorable eras.

About the Author:

Jim Brosnan pitched in the major leagues for the Chicago Cubs, the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Chicago White Sox, and was a sports commentator for ABC. His other books include The Long Season and Great Baseball Pitchers. He lives in Morton Grove, Illinois, outside of Chicago.

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