The Last Real Season: A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570973
EAN: 9780446401548
ISBN: 0446401544
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 14, 2008
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
There are baseball books and there are baseball books.
But for the baseball cognoscenti, there are just a few "must-have" classics: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton. THE LONG SEASON by Jim Brosnan. WILLIE'S TIME by Charles Einstein. And SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarous first-person account of Mike's travails serving as a daily beat writer covering the hapless 1972 Texas Rangers.
Now, in The Last Real Season, Shropshire captures the essence of a different time and different place in baseball, when the average salary for major leaguers was only $27,600...when the ballplayers' drug of choice was alcohol, not steroids...when major leaguers sported tight doubleknit uniforms over their long-hair and Afros...and on July 28th, 1975, the day that famed Detroit resident Jimmy Hoffa went missing, the Detroit Tigers started a losing streak of 19 games in a row. On the day that the Tigers blew a 4-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, Shropshire recalls: "I drank three bottles of Stroh's beer in less than a minute and wrote that 'Jimmy Hoffa will show up in the left field stands with Amelia Earhart as his date before the Tigers will win another game.'"
And so it goes. Filled with just the kind of wonderful baseball stories that real fans crave, this is the funniest baseball book of the year.
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Calling this book the "Last Real Season" gives it more breadth than it actually has. As a Texas Rangers beat writer, Mike Shropshire just didn't have the exposure to the other 23 teams to give the fun little insights he does for his home team. I loved Seasons in Hell so much that I bought the paperback even after I bought the hardcover, but "Last Real Season" left me a little disappointed. I guess the only way it would have been able to provide me with what I was looking for would have been if ... Read More
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...on page 42, there is an easily avoided mistake. Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson were teammates on the Yankees, and NOT the Indians. They were never teammates on the Indians. According to Retrosheet, Kekich was traded to the Indians on June 12, 1973 and was released by them on March 28, 1974. Peterson was traded to the Indians on April 24, 1974 (in the Chris Chambliss trade) and afterwards was traded by the Indians to the Texas Rangers on May 28, 1976. Nit-picking, to be sure, but it makes you wonder ... Read More
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For anyone who has had the pleasure to read "Seasons In Hell", baseball can never really look the same. Told from a boozy, shambling perspective of a fly-on-the-wall beat writer for the Texas Rangers in their inaugural seasons, it exposes the players as less than serious competitors, and the managers as part strategist, part baby sitter, part comedian, and part cheap psycho-analyst.
"The Last Real Season" begins with more lofty intentions, with a forward from the great manager Earl Weaver ... Read More
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This book begins with a review of the 1974 Oakland-LA World Series. When Catfish Hunter leaves the three-time World Champion A's due to a contract technicality,author and beat-writer Shropshire writes about how his hometown Texas Rangers can be considered favorites to win the 1975 AL West.
Shropshire does a terrific job of weaving significant events outside of the baseball world that year with his own and the Rangers' escapades during what became a disappointing season for the Rangers.
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