One Game at a Time

The 1959 pennant race was a fight to the finish for the Milwaukee Braves-the overwhelming favorites to win their third straight National League pennant-the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the San Francisco Giants. It featured some of baseball's biggest stars in Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Duke Snider, Eddie Mathews, and Warren Spahn, among others. On the season's final day, all three clubs still had a chance to win, and the least likely team somehow found a way to win the playoff game and make it to the World Series. One Game at a Time chronicles this battle to the finish, including the story of a pitcher who never believed he belonged in the majors; a player who was born with two club feet; one of the game's greatest players booed by his home fans; and a failure who found himself on the cusp of becoming a star. These stories and more carry the reader from March to October, through this grinding 1959 season that ended in an epic pennant race.