Complex sentence: The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant is a novel by Douglass Wallop is a story of Joe Boyd and his encounter with the devil, Mr. Applegate and how he was turned into Joe Hard to help the Washington Senators beat the New York Yankees.
Split into simpler sentences: The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant is a novel by Douglass Wallop. It is the story of Joe Boyd and his encounter with the devil, Mr. Applegate, and how he was turned into Joe Hardy to help the Washington Senators beat the New York Yankees.