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Down to the Last Pitch - by Tim Wendel (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Never in baseball history had a team ranked last rebounded to take the pennant the following season.
- About the Author: Tim Wendel was a founding editor of USA Today's Baseball Weekly and is the award-winning and highly acclaimed author of eleven books, including Summer of .68.
- 304 Pages
- Sports + Recreation, Baseball
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About the Book
From acclaimed author Tim Wendel, the behind-the-headlines story of the Best World Series Ever, and the watershed season that propelled two of baseball s worst teams to dominance and ushered in baseball s modern era. "
Book Synopsis
Never in baseball history had a team ranked last rebounded to take the pennant the following season. Yet in 1991 lightning struck twice as the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves, a pair of cellar dwellers the year before, faced each other in an unforgettable World Series. When the final out was recorded, the cover headline in Baseball Weekly read: "Best World Series Ever."
Review Quotes
"The most underrated great World Series is finally getting its due...brilliantly [brought] to life by Tim Wendel."--Claire Smith, award-winning ESPN news editor
"Just when you think you've seen everything, read everything, along comes a book and an author in whose gifted hands the past comes alive and makes you believe in miracles all over again."--Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy
"Tim Wendel, a great baseball writer and historian, relives the only time that two last-place teams rebounded the next year to play for the championship."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"The reader is in for a treat. Down to the Last Pitch is Wendel at his best."--Tampa Tribune
"[A] classic tale of an authentic Fall Classic"--Charleston Post and Courier
"This is a winner."--San Francisco Book Review
Hudson Valley News, 6/29/15
"A fine new book...for the baseball fan."
About the Author
Tim Wendel was a founding editor of USA Today's Baseball Weekly and is the award-winning and highly acclaimed author of eleven books, including Summer of .68. He has served as exhibit adviser to the Baseball Hall of Fame and has been a writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University. He lives near Washington, DC.