Heartbreakers
Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Ivan R Dee, Inc
Published:11th Dec '01
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Veteran baseball writer John Kuenster recalls fifteen of the game's most painful disasters of the last half-century and looks at them from the losers' point of view. With a reporter's skill and a fan's enthusiasm, he sets the scene for these memorable matchups, surveys the players who led each team to the big moment, and tells the story of the game and the emotions that can't be erased. Kuenster has hit a Grand Slam. —Sparky Anderson. John Kuenster lets those who suffered baseball's most epic defeats know that he feels their pain. —Bob Costas, NBC sports. Illustrated.
A refreshing approach to the games...it makes for an interesting read. * Tampa Tribune *
This book tells the real story of why sports are so great. -- Sparky Anderson
John Kuenster lets those who suffered baseball's most epic defeats know that he feels their pain. -- Bob Costas, Broadcaster, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 2018 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award
Kuenster does a fine job of summing up the season that led to each critical game...coming close to winning the whole enchilada, then having it snatched from under you maybe that's the definition of the agony of defeat. -- Charles Salzberg * The New York Times *
The best stories are always about the losers. Heartbreakers is a must for any baseball library. -- Jerome Holtzman, Official Historian of Major League Baseball
ISBN: 9781566634120
Dimensions: 228mm x 160mm x 20mm
Weight: 404g
288 pages