Traces highlights of the pennant races won by the Yankees in 1949, the Giants in 1951, the White Sox in 1959, the Pirates in 1960, the Yankees in 1961, the St.

Baseball at its best is a combination of chess match and gladiatorial combat, waged over a long season but turning on split-second decisions and physical instin

"In a year in which no team ever led the league by as many as four games, these three teams, [the Cleveland Indians, the Boston Red Sox, and the New York Yankee

The renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist delivers dramatic descriptions of fifteen suspense-filled pennant races from 1908 to 1993, in this insightful look