Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time - Softcover

Wendel, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306823748 ISBN 13: 9780306823749

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2015

Synopsis

Never in baseball history had a team ranked last rebounded to take the pennant the following season. Yet in 1991 lightning struck twice as the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves, a pair of cellar dwellers the year before, faced each other in an unforgettable World Series. When the final out was recorded, the cover headline in Baseball Weekly read: Best World Series Ever."

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Review:

"The most underrated great World Series is finally getting its due...brilliantly [brought] to life by Tim Wendel."--Claire Smith, award-winning ESPN news editor

"Just when you think you've seen everything, read everything, along comes a book and an author in whose gifted hands the past comes alive and makes you believe in miracles all over again."--Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy

"Tim Wendel, a great baseball writer and historian, relives the only time that two last-place teams rebounded the next year to play for the championship."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"The reader is in for a treat. Down to the Last Pitch is Wendel at his best."--Tampa Tribune

"[A] classic tale of an authentic Fall Classic"--Charleston Post and Courier

"This is a winner."--San Francisco Book Review

Hudson Valley News, 6/29/15
"A fine new book...for the baseball fan."

Book Description:

The behind-the-headlines story of the "Best World Series Ever" and the 1991 season that propelled two unlikely teams to dominance and ushered in baseball's modern era

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0306823748
• ISBN 13: 9780306823749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304