The Pitch Cait Murphy's Crazy '08 is the story of the ''greatest year in baseball history,'' when the New York Giants lost the pennant on Fred Merkle's base-running blunder, and there was — that's right — a ''Chicago Cubs dynasty.''
Curveball Hall of Famer John McGraw bet on his team (don't tell Pete Rose) and owned a pool hall with the man behind the Black Sox scandal.
Final Score A penetrating look at the dead-ball era, when the game truly was the national pastime.
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