War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541672680ISBN-10:1541672682UPC:9781541672680Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, United States, BaseballBook Topic:World War I, State & Local, HistorySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC435M6NG1
War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, the streets of Boston emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. And, as World War I raged on, the enemy seemed to be lurking...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541672680ISBN-10:1541672682UPC:9781541672680Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, United States, BaseballBook Topic:World War I, State & Local, HistorySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC435M6NG1
Randy Roberts is the 150th anniversary distinguished professor of history at Purdue University and the coauthor of the award-winning A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle (with Johnny Smith). He lives in Lafayette, Indiana. Johnny Smith is the J. C. "Bud" Shaw professor of sports history and an associate professor of history at Georgia Tech. He is the coauthor of Blood Brothers: The...
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