Pennant Race - Brosnan, Jim
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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…mehr

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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.
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Jim Brosnan is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Long Season and Pennant Race. He was a Major League Baseball pitcher for nine years, playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and Cincinnati Reds. He went on to be a sportscaster and contributor to Sports Illustrated, Life, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the New York Times Magazine.