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COM.ONIXSUITE.9781616087401 03 01 Skyhorse Publishing 01 GCOI 60239100677400 01 SKU 608740 02 1616087404 03 9781616087401 15 9781616087401 11 BB 1 A01 Cavanaugh, Jack Jack Cavanaugh <strong>Jack Cavanaugh</strong> is a veteran sportswriter whose work has appeared most notably on the sports pages of <em>The New York Times</em>, for which he has covered hundreds of assignments. He is the author of <em>Giants Among Men</em> (2008) and <em>Tunney</em> (2006), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography. In addition, Cavanaugh has been a frequent contributor to <em>Sports Illustrated</em> and has written for <em>Readers Digest</em>, <em>Tennis</em> and <em>Golf</em> magazines as well as other national publications. Cavanaugh is currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives with his wife, Marge, in Wilton, Connecticut. 01 eng 320 00 320 03 03 0 03 25 B&W Photographs SPO003030 01 Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942. World War II was not going well for the United States in the Pacific and not much better in Europe. Moreover, the country was in drastically short supply of ships, planes, submarines, torpedoes, and other war materials, and Uncle Sam needed men, millions of them, including those from twenty-one through thirty-five years of age who had been ordered to register for the draft, the age range of most big league baseball players.<p>But after a “green light” from President Roosevelt, major league baseball played on in 1942 as it would throughout the war. It turned out to be an extraordinary season, too, spiced by a brash, young, and swift St. Louis Cardinal team that stunned the baseball world by winning the World Series. The 1942 season would be overshadowed by war, though, with many people wondering whether it was really all right for four hundred seemingly healthy and athletic men to play a child’s game and earn far more money than the thousands of young Americans whose lives were at risk as they fought the Germans and Japanese abroad.</p><p>In <em>Season of ’42</em>, veteran sportswriter Jack Cavanaugh takes a look at this historic baseball season, how it was shaped and affected by the war and what, ultimately, it meant to America.</p> 02 Before hundreds of major leaguers went off to war, they enjoyed one final season in the... 08 “Along with tracking the pennant races—the Cardinals ultimately beating the Yankees in five games in the Series—Cavanaugh also delivers effective portraits of fading stars (such as Jimmie Foxx) and rising ones (such as Stan Musial). Solid baseball history.” 08 “With his exploration of how the U.S.'s involvement in WWII impacted the 1942 Major League Baseball season, Pulitzer Prize-nominee Cavanaugh (Tunney) executes a winning double play--intertwining baseball history with progress reports from the front lines of battle, his newest will please sport fans and military buffs alike.” 08 “the book is an engaging read for anyone who loves baseball, history, and the history of baseball.” 04 03 72 01 http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/resources/titles/60239100677400/images/60239100677400L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/resources/titles/60239100677400/images/60239100677400S.jpg http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239100677400 Skyhorse Publishing 01 Skyhorse Publishing US 04 20120525 02 WORLD 01 0.928266 in 02 0.6288 in 03 0.109647 in National Book Company, Inc. http://www.wwnorton.com 02 WORLD AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AO CC AT AU AW AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH BI BJ BN BT RS BW BY CA CX AQ CF CG CH CI CK CM CU CV GS CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DZ EE EG EH ER ES ES ET FI FJ FK FM FO FR GA GB GB GB GD GE GF GH GI GL GM GN GQ GR IO GW GY KP HR HT HU IE IL IN MO IQ IR IS IT JM JO KE KG KI KM KN KW KY KZ LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD MG MH UM ML MM MN YT MQ MR MS MT MU MV MW MZ NA NC NE NF NG NL NL NO NP NR NU OM PA PF PF PG PG PK PL PM PN PT PW QA RE RO RU RU RW SA SB SC SD SE SH SI SJ SK SL SM SN SO SR ST SY SZ TC TD BL TG TJ TK TM TN TO TR TT TV TZ UA UG UZ VA VC VG VU WF WS YE IM ZA ZM ZW ZW 02 Y 21 24 01 24.95 USD