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The End of Baseball

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.

Themes
sports
Setting
2000sUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 340 pages

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