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Bobby Thomsons home run in the ninth to beat Brooklyn and give the Giants the 1951 National League pennant. Bill Mazeroskis ninthinning homer for Pittsburgh to beat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series. The Mets amazing 1969 stretch drive. Its the winners we remember in baseballs most dramatic episodes. But baseball being a game of inches, it's often a fine line between victory and defeat. Losing is unexpected, unpredictable, frequently a consequence of fickle fate. The game is designed to break your heart, Bart Giamatti said. In Heartbreakers, veteran baseball writer John Kuenster recalls fifteen of the games most painful disasters of the last halfcentury and looks at them from the losers point of view. With a reporters skill and a fans enthusiasm, he sets the scene for these memorable matchups, surveys the players who led each team to the big moment, and tells the story of the game and the emotions that cant be erased. He has interviewed key players who suffered the defeats, providing personal insights and sometimes surprising perspectives on the game action that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Heartbreakers offers a box seat forand a fresh slant onthe replay of baseballs most thrilling games. With 50 blackandwhite photographs.
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