{"product_id":"9780803264069","title":"Baseball and Other Matters in 1941","description":"\"This is a baseball book, but whether Creamer intended it or not, it's much, much more.\"-Sports Illustrated.\u003cp\u003e\"[Creamer] recalls this momentous year in baseball and world history. He reprises Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's .406 batting average, Hank Greenberg and the draft, the furious Dodgers-Cardinals pennant fight, and the ensuing World Series. All this is portrayed against the looming U.S. entry into World War II.\"-Library Journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert W. Creamer, one of the best and most perceptive writers on baseball, remembers the baseball-and other matters-of 1941 in a tribute to the game that is also part memoir. Creamer was a long-time writer and editor at Sports Illustrated. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the following Bison Books: Stengel: His Life and Times, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat, Jocko, and The Quality of Courage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNP - Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016249000176,"sku":"9780803264069","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803264069_p0.jpg?v=1763727082","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803264069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}