1941, the greatest year in sports : two baseball legends, two boxing champs, and the unstoppable thoroughbred who made history in the shadow of war / Mike Vaccaro.

Author: Vaccaro, Mike.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Doubleday, c2007.

Descriptionviii, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:"In 1941, the Greatest Year in Sports, acclaimed sportswriter Mike Vaccaro chronicles this astounding moment in history. Fueled by a somber mania for sports--a desire for good news to drown out the bad--Americans by the millions fervently watched, listened, and read as Joe DiMaggio dazzled the country by hitting in a record-setting fifty-six consecutive games; Ted Williams powered through an unprecedented .406 season; Joe Louis and Billy Conn (the heavyweight and light-heavyweight champions) battled in unheard-of fashion for boxing's ultimate championship; and the phenomenal (some say deranged) thoroughbred, Whirlaway, raced to three heart-stopping victories that won the coveted Triple Crown of horse racing." - jacket

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