For the first time in about two years, I read a full book! Lauren purchased me the novel “The End of Baseball” in May for our six-month anniversary. It took me a month and a half of reading the book by local author Peter Schilling, Jr., but I did it. It’s the first novel I have read in many, many years. The last book I read was “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” a collection of lude, true stories by some guy. Before that, I read Meat Loaf’s autobiography, and before that, Hakeem Olajuwon’s. Excluding books I was assigned to read in high school and college, this might be the first fictional story I have read on my own since the mid-90s.
The premise of the book is a look at what might have been had Bill Veeck been allowed to buy the Philadelphia Athletics in 1943, which he tried unsuccessfully to do in real life. He hoped to stock the team full of the best Negro Leaguers and integrate baseball. So, this book takes a look at what would have happened had his plan gone through. I would recommend it to baseball fans and non-fans alike!
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