Baseball's 25 Greatest Pennant Races
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Pennant Races was written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published in 1987 by The Sporting News. It contained summaries of 25 great pennant races between 1908 and 1980. Famous events recounted included Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World", Fred Merkle's boner, the 1914 Miracle Braves, Jack Chesbro's title-costing wild pitch, the Whiz Kids, Miracle Mets, Vitt's Crybabies and Gabby Hartnett's homer in the gloamin'.
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