The latest edition to my baseball library is an interesting read called Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs . It’s an interesting tome that has game descriptions and box scores of some of the more interesting finishes in baseball. You’ve got a lot of what you’d expect, like Game Six of the 1975 World Series and Game Seven of the 1960 World Series but there’s also a lot of more interesting and lesser known finishes. Game seven of the 1926 World Series is in here, in which Babe Ruth was caught stealing to finish the whole series as well as several final outs at several ballparks like Ebbets Field and Tiger Stadium.
There’s a lot in here and it’s organized very well. Want to just check out the ballparks section? That’s no sweat as is the final at bat of several high profile players. Authors Bill Chuck and Jim Kaplan did a very nice job with this book.
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