Robert Weintraub is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Slate and the author of the acclaimed books The House That Ruth Built, The Victory Season, and No Better Friend.
"The Victory Seasonleaps off the page like a newsreel." -- Allen
Barra, Chicago Tribune
"A beautifully written paean to the 1946 baseball season, when
normalcy returned to the national pastime." -- Mike Vaccaro, New
York Post
"A meticulously researched and elegantly written chronicle of what
happened in 1946... From start to finish, The Victory Season is a
home run." -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"An entertaining read... Scattered among those big stories are
little gems about players most of us have never heard of." --
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"As Robert Weintraub's measured, elegant prose illustrates, "The
Victory Season" makes an irrefutable case that baseball's golden
age begins in 1946. Grade: Grand slam." -- Mark Hodermarsky,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Bright writing and the sweat of painstaking research bring
baseball's Greatest Generation to life in this tale of a poignant
and pivotal season in the game's history. Robert Weintraub's magic
trick is to make you feel as if you're watching Leo Durocher, Ted
Williams and company in real time." -- John Eisenberg, author of
Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud
for Dallas's Pro Football Future
"Even if you think you know the history of baseball, Weintraub will
surprise you with many gems from his meticulous research. The
Victory Season is an important work featuring an all-star cast." --
James Miller, co-author of Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the
World of ESPN
"In the tradition of Robert W. Creamer's classic 'Baseball in '41,
' Robert Weintraub's 'The Victory Season' doesn't merely revisit a
pivotal baseball season, it places that season in a larger
historical and cultural context. It is a season - and a book - to
be relished, as America returns to a very familiar place: at home,
at peace, and ready to follow DiMaggio, Musial, Williams, and their
compatriots across another glorious summer." -- Michael
MacCambridge, author of America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro
Football Captured A Nation
"Rob Weintraub has written a fascinating tale of a pivotal year for
baseball and America. The research and storytelling are
first-rate." -- Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The
Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
"Robert Weintraub recounts the game's joyous reacclimatization,
duly honoring the fine record of service of many players, shedding
light on veteran returns and underscoring significant contemporary
events.... Admirably wide-ranging." -- New York Times Book
Review
"The baseball history makes great reading, but the larger story of
our sometimes painful transition to peacetime gives the book its
staying power. Fine popular history." -- Booklist (starred
review)
"There was more to baseball in 1946 than Ted Williams and Stan
Musial marching home from war. The tectonic plates were shifting
beneath the game's surface as the color line developed its first
cracks and greedy team owners unwittingly inspired baseball's labor
movement. With a Halberstam-like sense of purpose, Robert Weintraub
captures it all in The Victory Season." -- John Schulian, co-editor
of At the Fights, author of Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand
"We see a lot of baseball books each spring, but few will be more
supremely entertaining than The Victory Season... Impossibly
charming... A winning account." -- Newsday
"Weintraub loads the bases with the kind of entertaining anecdotes,
minutia and quotes that separate baseball -- and baseball writing
-- from other sports, and he skillfully captures the facts and
texture of the '46 season with meticulous research and a
conversational style. Weintraub is a big-league storyteller." --
USA Today
"Weintraub tells myriad good stories. If you want generous context
for a great season of baseball when it was still the national
pastime and the country was in fascinating flux, Weintraub is your
man." -- Washington Post
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