Casey on the Loose
- ISBN-10
- 0670827800
- ISBN-13
- 9780670827800
- Category
- Baseball managers
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Author
- Frank Deford
Description
A humorous and colorful account of the fateful day that Casey stepped up to bat and struck-out to unprecedented disappointment combines real and fictional characters to vividy convey the ups and downs of late-nineteenth-century life and baseball
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