The Last Real Season: A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone
Mike Shropshire
ISBN 10: 0446401544 ISBN 13: 9780446401548
Published by Grand Central Publishing (edition First Edition), 2008
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Synopsis:
SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarious first-person account of Mike's travails serving as a daily beat writer covering the hapless 1972 Texas Rangers, is very much a classic among baseball books and now, in The Last Real Season, he captures the essence of a different time and different place in baseball, when the average salary for major leaguers was only $27,600...when the ballplayers' drug of choice was alcohol, not steroids...when major leaguers sported tight doubleknit uniforms over their long-hair and Afros...and on July 28th 1975, the day that famed Detroit resident Jimmy Hoffa went missing, the Detroit Tigers started a losing streak of 19 games in a row. On the day that the Tigers blew a 4-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, Shropshire recalls: 'I drank three bottles of Stroh's beer in less than a minute and wrote that 'Jimmy Hoffa will show up in the left field stands with Amelia Earhart as his date before the Tigers will win another game'.' And so it goes.
About the Author: MIKE SHROPSHIRE is a longtime sports columnist who has written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, Playboy and Sports Illustrated.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Last Real Season: A Hilarious Look Back ...
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (edition First Edition)
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.