{"product_id":"9781566638487","title":"The End of Baseball : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Peter Schilling's wonderful novel, the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his name, has hustled his way into buying the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary stars of the Negro Leagues, fielding a club that will go down in baseball annals as one of the greatest ever to play the game. Here are the behind-the-scenes adventures that bring this dream to reality, and a cast of characters only history's pen could create. The End of Baseball is the most rollicking, free-spirited baseball story in years, the unvarnished truth of that incredible season and the men who lived it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ivan R Dee, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48769319108843,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":27.37,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781566638487-1.jpg?v=1781690317","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781566638487","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}