War Fever - Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War

About the author

Randy Roberts is the 150th anniversary distinguished professor of history at Purdue University and the coauthor of the award-winning A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle (with Johnny Smith). He lives in Lafayette, Indiana.

Johnny Smith is the J. C. "Bud" Shaw professor of sports history and an associate professor of history at Georgia Tech. He is the coauthor of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X (with Randy Roberts). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Summary

A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey

Product details

• Authors: Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith, Johnny Roberts Smith
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2021
• EAN: 9781541672680
• ISBN: 978-1-5416-7268-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous