1960: The Last Pure Season is the most complete work ever about one of baseball's most glorious campaigns. There was Pittsburgh's shocking World Series victory over the indomitable Yankees, Ted Williams's legendary final season, a classic homerun derby, the formation and ultimate disbanding of Branch Rickey's proposed Continental League, and the birth of baseball's Twins and Angels. This was the last season when the original National and American League teams were intact; the next year baseball began its expansion which ...
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1960: The Last Pure Season is the most complete work ever about one of baseball's most glorious campaigns. There was Pittsburgh's shocking World Series victory over the indomitable Yankees, Ted Williams's legendary final season, a classic homerun derby, the formation and ultimate disbanding of Branch Rickey's proposed Continental League, and the birth of baseball's Twins and Angels. This was the last season when the original National and American League teams were intact; the next year baseball began its expansion which eventually led to baseball "play-offs" and league "Divisions." It was a time when most of the game's players earned salaries about twenty-five times that of the average American, compared to 1999, when those salaries were nearly 400 times greater. Keene also details the award winners that year, the moves toward expansion, and includes a chapter on "Reflections of a Year for the Ages." Changes in team ownership, managers, and stadiums marked the beginnings of many more changes to come during the decade of the '60s and beyond. In a new prologue, Keene highlights these changes and connects them with today's game in a special tribute to the "boys of summer" of 1960.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; ISBN: 1582612803. ISBN/EAN: 9781582612805. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22147.
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Very good, very good. 216, illus., appendices, chronology, bibliography, index. Foreword by Dick Groat. The author argues that a very good case could be made that the quality of play and overall level of talent in the major leagues in 1960 was at its highest than any time before or since. Among the players that year were Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Warren Spahn, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Frank Robinson, Don Drysdale, Roberto Clemente, Brooks Robinson, and Sandy Koufax.
