San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Baseball Books 2009

Allan Barra writes: Shapiro (author of “The Last Good Season,” about the old Brooklyn Dodgers) is a terrific writer. His accounts of Branch Rickey’s struggle and eventual failure to create a third major league, the Continental, as well as the last Yankee season of baseball’s most successful manager, Casey Stengel (whose team lost the 1960 Series on Bill Mazeroski’s home run in the seventh game), makes for compelling reading.

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