Explores fifteen of baseball's most moving losses, surveying the strategies and the players that made up those games.
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This book tells the real story of why sports are so great.--Sparky Anderson The best stories are always about the losers. "Heartbreakers" is a must for any baseball library.--Jerome Holtzman John Kuenster lets those who suffered baseball's most epic defeats know that he feels their pain.--Bob Costas, NBC Sports The best stories are always about the losers. Heartbreakers is a must for any baseball library.--Jerome Holtzman, Official Historian of Major League Baseball Kuenster does a fine job of summing up the season that led to each critical game...coming close to winning the whole enchilada, then having it snatched from under you maybe that's the definition of the agony of defeat.--Charles Salzberg "The New York Times "
John Kuenster is editor of Baseball Digest and a former staff writer and columnist for the Chicago Daily News. He has written extensively for newspapers and magazines and is also co-author of To Sleep with the Angels, the story of the Our Lady of the Angels school fire.
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