The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932

by Thomas Wolf, Jane Wong, Thomas Wolf, et al.

Book Overview

Best Baseball Book of 2020 from Sports Collectors Digest
2021 Seymour Medal Finalist

In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled country--and yet the world of baseball...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803255241
• ISBN13: 9780803255241
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"