The Last Real Season a Hilarious Look Back at 1975

The Last Real Season a Hilarious Look Back at 1975

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There are baseball books and there are baseball books.But for the baseball cognoscenti, there are just a few must-have classics: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton. THE LONG SEASON by Jim Brosnan. WILLIES TIME by Charles Einstein. And SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarous first-person account of Mike's travails serving as a daily beat writer covering the hapless 1972 Texas Rangers.Now, in The Last Real Season, Shropshire captures the essence of a different time and different place in baseball, when the average salary for major leaguers was only $27,600... when the ballplayers' drug of choice was alcohol, not steroids... when major leaguers sported tight doubleknit uniforms over their long-hair and Afros... and on July 28th, 1975, the day that famed Detroit resident Jimmy Hoffa went missing, the Detroit Tigers started a losing streak of 19 games in a row. On the day that the Tigers blew a 4-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, Shropshire recalls: I drank three bottles of Strohs beer in less than a minute and wrote that Jimmy Hoffa will show up in the left field stands with Amelia Earhart as his date before the Tigers will win another game.And so it goes. Filled with just the kind of wonderful baseball stories that real fans crave, this is the perfect Father's Day gift for baseball fans everywhere.
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Name of the Author
Mike
Shropshire
Language
English
ISBN
9780446593380
Release date
2008

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The Last Real Season a Hilarious Look Back at 1975

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