THE YEAR THE YANKEES LOST THE PENNANT

by Douglass Wallop ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The Book of the Month Club has tapped this for September, as a dual selection, and it's a high fly ball--- but we're still wondering who's going to be around to make the catch. Report repeated from page 295 of the May 1st bulletin, as follows: ""A bye-bye baby way out into the year 1958 projects the bargain made between Joe Boyd, a middle-aged real estate man, and Mr. Applegate, the devil. Joe, a wary operator, insists on an escape clause in the contract which offers him fame- as a baseball operator, and the defeat of the Yankees in the pennant race. His phenomenal performance on the Washington Senators pushes the team up in front, but Joe's satisfactions are tempered by guilt; he causes the ruin of a player; he misses his wife, and he has too much conscience for the charms of Lola, one of Mr. Applegate's advocates. The season draws to a close and Joe is determined to return to his former life- in spite of Applegate's many mean manoeuvers to hold him- and at the end, in a last game, it is Applegate himself he must defeat on the field.... Not too wild a pitch to the market of It Happens Every Spring, this has its moments of fantasy- and fun- but strictly home-grown.

Pub Date: N/A

ISBN: 0393326101

Page Count: -

Publisher: Norton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: FICTION