Summer of Shadows: A Murder, A Pennant Race, and the Twilight of the Best Location in the Nation
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781578604678 (1578604672)
ASIN: 1578604672
Publish date: December 1st 2010
Publisher: Clerisy Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Summer of 1954......three stories:The Cleveland Indians battled their arch-rivals...The New York Yankees...for the Pennant....only to lose the World Series to....The New York Giants:Marilyn Sheppard was found, brutally murdered, in the home she shared with her husband...the charismatic "Dr Sam'...th...
Knight tried to tie the 1954 Cleveland Indians' pennant race in with the Sam Sheppard murder case and tie that in with Cleveland's decline as the "best location in the nation". He was successful in writing an entertaining book - and you don't have to know much about baseball to enjoy it - but I don'...