The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos Who Reinvented the World Series in 1912

The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos Who Reinvented the World Series in 1912

Mike Vaccaro • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10: 1100290869 · ISBN-13: 978‑0767929684 · 2010

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In This Wonderful Page-Turner, Veteran Sports journalist Mike Vaccaro brings to life a bygone era in cinematic and intimate detail-and re-creates the magic and suspense of the world's first classic series.Despite a major presidential election, the near-assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, and the most sensational trial of the young century, baseball dominated front-page headlines in October 1912. The Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants of that year-two of the finest ball clubs that had ever been assembled-went head-to-head in a thrilling eight-game battle that ultimately elevated the World Series from a regional October novelty to a national obsession.

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