Heartbreakers: Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats - Tapa dura

This book tells the real story of why sports are so great.--Sparky Anderson The best stories are always about the losers. "Heartbreakers" is a must for any baseball library.--Jerome Holtzman John Kuenster lets those who suffered baseball's most epic defeats know that he feels their pain.--Bob Costas, NBC Sports The best stories are always about the losers. Heartbreakers is a must for any baseball library.--Jerome Holtzman, Official Historian of Major League Baseball Kuenster does a fine job of summing up the season that led to each critical game...coming close to winning the whole enchilada, then having it snatched from under you maybe that's the definition of the agony of defeat.--Charles Salzberg "The New York Times "

A veteran baseball writer recalls 15 of the game's most painful disasters of the last century and looks at them from the loser's point of view.