The End of Baseball

[R-V]

I'm about a third of the way through this and enjoying the hell out of it. Historical fiction that has Bill Veeck buying the Philadelphia A's in 1943 and signing Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and the best of the Negro Leaguers to run roughshod over MLB. I was thinking that someone here recommended this to me but there doesn't seem to be a thread on it.

[Quality Start Machine]

I'm about a third of the way through this and enjoying the hell out of it. Historical fiction that has Bill Veeck buying the Philadelphia A's in 1943 and signing Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and the best of the Negro Leaguers to run roughshod over MLB. I was thinking that someone here recommended this to me but there doesn't seem to be a thread on it.

Veeck was going to buy the Phillies, and was blocked by Ford Frick, who later tried hitching onto Jackie Robinson. But that was his plan.

It's in "Veeck-As In Wreck". Which is required baseball reading.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I'm about a third of the way through this and enjoying the hell out of it. Historical fiction that has Bill Veeck buying the Philadelphia A's in 1943 and signing Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and the best of the Negro Leaguers to run roughshod over MLB. I was thinking that someone here recommended this to me but there doesn't seem to be a thread on it.

Veeck was going to buy the Phillies, and was blocked by Ford Frick, who later tried hitching onto Jackie Robinson. But that was his plan.

It's in "Veeck-As In Wreck". Which is required baseball reading.

The stories of a teenage Veeck Jr. helping prepare the tub of ice for a hungover Hack Wilson to sit in after a rough night out are worth it alone.