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"Weintraub is a big-league storyteller .... He loads the bases with
the kind of entertaining anecdotes, minutiae, and quotes that
separate baseball-and baseball writing-from other sports." -- USA
Today
In the spring of 1946, Americans were ready to heal. The war was
finally over, and as America's fathers and brothers were coming
home so too were baseball's greats. Ted Williams, Stan Musial, and
Joe DiMaggio returned with bats blazing, making the season a true
classic that ended in a thrilling seven-game World Series. America
also witnessed the beginning of a new era in baseball- it was a
year of attendance records, the first year Yankee Stadium held
night games, the last year the Green Monster wasn't green, and
Jackie Robinson's first year playing in the Brooklyn Dodgers'
system.
THE VICTORY SEASON thrillingly recounts these years of baseball and
war, including the little-known "world series" that servicemen
played in a captured Hitler Youth stadium in the fall of 1945.
Robert Weintraub's extensive research and vibrant storytelling
enliven the legendary season that embodies what we now think of as
the game's golden era.
No Better Friend tells the remarkable story of Royal Air Force
technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in
an internment camp during WWII. Judy was a fiercely loyal animal
who sensed danger and instinctively mistrusted anyone in enemy
uniform. Their relationship deepened throughout their imprisonment.
The prisoners suffered severe beatings which Judy would interrupt
with her barking. The dog became a beacon for the men, who saw in
her survival a flicker of hope for their own. Judy was the war's
only canine POW, and when she passed away in 1950, she was buried
in her Air Force jacket. Williams would never own another dog.
Their story--of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst
circumstances--is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World War
II.
An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and
his dog during the Second World War. The two friends huddled close
together, each of them the other's saving grace in a world gone to
hell . . . There was nothing terribly unusual about POWs suffering
horribly at the hands of their Japanese captors. All across the
Pacific theatre, Allied captives were experiencing similar
punishment. But there was one thing unusual about this particular
duo of prisoners. One of them was a dog. Flight technician Frank
Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of
places: a World War II internment camp. Judy was a fiercely loyal
dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the
pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the
prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to
intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences
and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the men, who saw
in her survival a flicker of hope for their own. Using a wealth of
new material including interviews with those who knew Frank and
Judy, letters and firsthand accounts, Robert Weintraub expertly
weaves a narrative of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst
circumstances. Judy's devotion to the men she was interned with,
including a host of characters from all around the world, from
Australia to the UK, was so powerful that reports indicate she
might have been the only dog spared in these camps - and their care
for her helped keep them alive. At one point, deep in despair and
starvation, Frank contemplated killing himself and the dog to
prevent either from watching the other die. But both were rescued,
and Judy spent the rest of her life with Frank. She became the
war's only official canine POW, and after she died at the age of
fourteen, Frank couldn't bring himself to ever have another dog.
Their story of friendship and survival is one of the great sagas of
World War II.
"The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and
the extraordinary baseball season of 1923"
Before the 27 World Series titles--before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey
Mantle, and Derek Jeter-the Yankees were New York's shadow
franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even
have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their
cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost
to the Giants when it mattered most: in October.
But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own
field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the
Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble,
erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was
coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season
that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing
as a bona fide superstar.
It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to
the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep
right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay
ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium
christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the
power game, and established the Yankees as New York's-and the
sport's-team to beat.
From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series
matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across
the Harlem River-one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his
Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the
Stadium-Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that
built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's
legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball.
Harry Greenfield, 83, is brought kicking and screaming to the Star
of Zion Nursing Home. There, the wisdom of a few residents
transform his anger and self-righteousness into a compelling need
to regain his family's love and support.
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