Bobby Thomson's home run in the ninth to beat Brooklyn and give the
Giants the 1951 National League pennant. Bill Mazeroski's
ninth-inning homer for Pittsburgh to beat the Yankees in the 1960
World Series. The Mets' amazing 1969 stretch drive. It's the
winners we remember in baseball's most dramatic episodes. But
baseball being a game of inches, it's often a fine line between
victory and defeat. Losing is unexpected, unpredictable, frequently
a consequence of fickle fate. The game is designed to break your
heart, Bart Giamatti said. In Heartbreakers, veteran baseball
writer John Kuenster recalls fifteen of the game's most painful
"disasters" of the last half-century and looks at them from the
losers' point of view. With a reporter's skill and a fan's
enthusiasm, he sets the scene for these memorable matchups, surveys
the players who led each team to the big moment, and tells the
story of the game and the emotions that can't be erased. He has
interviewed key players who suffered the defeats, providing
personal insights and sometimes surprising perspectives on the game
action that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Heartbreakers
offers a box seat for-and a fresh slant on-the replay of baseball's
most thrilling games. With 50 black-and-white photographs.
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