num_pages: 258
description: "A bad bargain for the devil, a wonderful one for readers."― New York Post Decades before Field of Dreams there was The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant , the classic baseball fable that became the hit movie and musical Damn Yankees . Now a new generation is ready to discover this delightful book, restored to its original title, with a new introduction by baseball writer Bill James.Baseball lovers everywhere can identify with Joe Boyd, a die-hard Washington Senators fan who puts his soul in hock to help them wrest the pennant away from the hated, all-conquering Yankees. Transformed by the sulfurous Mr. Applegate's satanic magic into twenty-two-year-old phenom Joe Hardy, he leads the hapless Senators in a torrid late-season pursuit of the men in pinstripes. Joe has until September 21st before the deal becomes final―and eternal. With the luscious temptress Lola to distract him, he'll have a hell of a time wriggling out of the bargain...
language: English
title: The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
titlecomplete: The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
genres: Fiction, Plays, Sports, Literary Fiction, Baseball, Fantasy, Literature
ratings_count: 263
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company