Season of Shattered Dreams Postwar Baseball, Spokane Indians, a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed

In 1946, a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team crashed, leaving nine players dead and six hospitalized. This booktells their stories, primarily through the lives of three key players, following them through WWII, into the 1946 season that was greatly impacted by men returning from overseas, and through the crash that changed everything.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Eric Vickrey is a nonfiction baseball writer based in Washington state. He is the author of Runnin’ Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals and Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). The latter is a finalist for the 2024 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. For more information, visit ericvickrey.com.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Eric Vickrey
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2024
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Ratgeber > Sport > Ballsport
• EAN: 9781538190722
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9072-2
• Anzahl Seiten: 208
• Themen: Baseball, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History, Sports teams & clubs, history of sport, baseball history, World War II, Washington State, History of the Americas, Sports teams and clubs, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Washington (US State), sports history, minor league baseball, Post-World War II, 1946–1968 (post Second World War period and Foundation of Italian Republic), overcoming tragedy, pacific northwest history, sports tragedies, history of baseball, 1940s baseball, Pacific Coast League, American baseball, tragic baseball, surviving athletes, Minor League baseball players, World War II baseball, Spokane baseball, deadly baseball, Pacific Northwest sports, Ben Geraghty, baseball deaths, Pacific Northwest baseball, athlete survivors, Spokane Indians, baseball death, Jack Lohrke, Washington State baseball, American baseball tragedy, Vic Picetti, baseball accident, baseball careers, baseball tragedy