{"product_id":"9781566638487","title":"The End of Baseball: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Peter Schilling's wonderful novel, the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his name, has hustled his way into buying the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary stars of the Negro Leagues, fielding a club that will go down in baseball annals as one of the greatest ever to play the game. Here are the behind-the-scenes adventures that bring this dream to reality, and a cast of characters only history's pen could create. The End of Baseball is the most rollicking, free-spirited baseball story in years, the unvarnished truth of that incredible season and the men who lived it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dee, Ivan R. Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040787087600,"sku":"9781566638487","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566638487_p0.jpg?v=1769899695","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566638487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}