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Review on Harvey Frommer’s BaseballGuru.com

Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

Shapiro, author of “The Last Good Season,” is in top form breaking new ground and providing new awarenesses of a little reported on chapter in American sports history – the aborted attempt by Branch Rickey to create the Continental League and Casey Stengel’s yen to remake the ways in which the national pastime was played. A good read.

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