1941 -- The Greatest Year In Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War

by Mike Vaccaro
1941 -- The Greatest Year In Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War
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5 ratings, 4.60 average rating, 3 reviews (more data...)
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published
2007 by Doubleday

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Hardcover, 320 pages

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0385517955    (isbn13: 9780385517959)

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Joe DiMaggio . . . Ted Williams . . . Joe Louis . . . Billy Conn . . . Whirlaway

Against the backdrop of a war that threatened to consume the world, th

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Jeff
08/26/08
Jeff rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in May, 2008
recommends it for: Everyone
I'm mostly a bandwagon sports fan and I'm not one of those guys who can recite statistics at the drop of the hat. But the book weaves some of the greatest sports stories of the 20th Century with a great history of the growing cloud of World War II. I learned as much about Joe Louis, Joe Dimagio and Ted Williams as I did about Churchill, Roosevelt and Charle's Lindberg. The book plays out like a great Ken Burns documentary. Fantastic.
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Debbie
12/16/07
Debbie rated it: 5 of 5 stars

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excellent book about sports in 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Great antecdotes about legendary sports figures (Williams, DiMaggio) and equines (Whirlaway). Easy to read - and recommended!
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Bill
11/26/07
Bill rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in October, 2007
Excellent book about the three big sports in 1941 (boxing, baseball, and horse racing). Really interesting to see how much sports have changed since then - but also how many things are the same.
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Michael
12/29/08
Michael rated it: 5 of 5 stars

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Joe
08/31/08
Joe rated it: 4 of 5 stars


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