Baseball in '41: A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-- in the Year America Went to WarThe acclaimed biographer of Babe Ruth and Casey Stengel was 18 at the beginning of 1941, and he remembers the season preceding the bombing of Pearl Harbor as the best ever--when Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, when Ted Williams batted .406, and when the Dodgers and Yankees staged a classic World Series. 16 pages of photographs. |
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Explaining the Obvious | 3 |
Joe and Ted | 10 |
The Yankees | 18 |
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