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The unforgettable season the story of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and the record-setting summer of '41

Tells the story of two of baseball's greatest heroes, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams and how during the summer of 1941 they each set records that still stand.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bildner, Phil
Other Authors:	Schindler, S. D. (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group (USA), c2011.
Subjects:	Baseball > History > Juvenile nonfiction. Baseball players > Juvenile nonfiction. DiMaggio, Joe, > 1914-1999 > Juvenile nonfiction. Williams, Ted, > 1918-2002 > Juvenile nonfiction. New York Yankees (Baseball team) > Juvenile nonfiction. Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Tells the story of two of baseball's greatest heroes, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams and how during the summer of 1941 they each set records that still stand.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Audience:	007-009.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780399255014 (reinf. bdg.) 039925501X (reinf. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Phil Bildner received a B. A. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and a J. D. from New York University School of Law in 1993. He was admitted to the bar in both New York and New Jersey and got a job as an associate at a large Manhattan law firm. After practicing law for a year, he decided to pursue a career in education. He received a master's degree in early childhood and elementary education from Long Island University in 1995. He stopped teaching in 2006 in order to write full time. His picture books include Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy, The Shot Heard 'Round the World, Twenty-One Elephants, Turkey Bowl, The Hallelujah Flight, and The Soccer Fence. Marvelous Cornelius won the 2016 Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children's Literature. His young adult novels include Playing the Field and Busted. He also co-created the Sluggers series with Loren Long. In 2007, he began chaperoning student-volunteer trips to Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. He co-founded The NOLA Tree, a non-profit service organization. (Bowker Author Biography)