Every baseball enthusiast enamored with its history has always imagined what it might have been like if the major leaguers of the old segregated white leagues had to play against the best players of the old Negro Leagues. Author Peter Schilling gives a highly entertaining fictional account of such an event.
Peter Schilling, Jr. has written a first novel that furnishes an extra-base hit.
This is a very interesting fictionalized story about Bill Veeck and the great Negro League stars. If only things had been different and integration of the major leagues (not to mention society) could have taken place earlier.
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An interesting "account" of the first season of integrated major league baseball. Peter Schilling's novel keeps your attention, for the most part, by devising a page-turning baseball season and by focusing on a few terrific, real-life characters, including Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck, Josh Gibson, and Roy Campanella.
Peter Schilling brings back the game of baseball complete with the personalities, the idiosyncrasies, the after hours stories and all of the fun that this sport once had. This is an amazing novel that just sucks you in and doesn't let go.
The End of Baseball is a wonderful baseball novel, one that combines a rich history of the game with an intriguing look at one of the more controversial periods in our nation's favorite past-time. The author does a great job of bringing to life these characters and their very intriguing circumstances.
I am not a baseball fan or what you would call a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, but Peter Schilling's "The End of Baseball" is one of the most enjoyable pieces of fiction I have read in many years. Mr.
Peter Schilling, Jr.'s inventive novel "The End of Baseball" describes a mesmerizing 1944 baseball season that might have been - if Bill Veeck had been able to purchase a major league team and recruit an entire team of Negro Leaguer stars.
This book has it all: the high drama of a "what if?" season of baseball, historical cameos, and real social commentary.
I love baseball history and good baseball novels and the premise of this book is something that I have often dreamed about when reading about Negro League players: what if a bunch of Negro Leaguers crashed the color line pre-1947 Jackie Robinson? Well, The End of Baseball attempts to answer that.
I really enjoyed this fictional account of what could have happened had integragtion happened sooner in professional baseball. It was a fun look at some of the all-stars of the negro leagues, most of whom never played in major league baseball.
I really liked this story. I wanted something different from my normal selection, and this certainly was that.
This one was really different and fun. Real baseball characters in a fine work of fiction.
According to baseball lore, a flamboyant investor/owner named Bill Veeck tried to purchase the Philadelphia Phillies in 1942, planning to staff the team entirely with stars from the Negro League (this was back in the days when baseball was racially segregated). Veeck claimed that Baseball Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis refused to allow him to buy the team.
