One Championship Season: The Story of the 1944 St. Louis Browns
By Carson Van Lindt

One Championship Season recalls the one championship won by the St. Louis Browns during the 1944 season.

A Solid Narrative of the St. Louis Browns's Only Pennant-Winning Season
The St. Louis Browns were the American League's hard luck team. It had a good team for a few years in the 1920s and again in the mid-1940s but one only one pennant in its history between 1902 and 1953. The 1944 Browns were a fun team but they had the misfortune to field their only league winner when the cross-town Cardinals, of the great teams of the era, also won in the National League. They lost to the Cardinals in the 1944 World Series.

This is a fine one-season narrative of the activities of the Browns on the field and an analysis of how they were able to take the pennant. It does not offer a sustained, in-depth analysis but it is a good account that many baseball fans will find satisfying in this enormously entertaining story of how the Browns moved from worst to first in the American League.

Recreation at it's finest!!
The rare photos enhance the story in this fine book, One Championship Season. Mr. Van Lindt gives credit where credit is due when he gives the reader insight to the building of the St. Louis Browns franchise. Excellent read.

ONE CHAMPIONSHIP BOOK
THIS IS A VERY GOOD READ. THE ONLY BAD THING I FOUND WITH THIS WAS THAT IT WAS NOT LONG ENOUGH. IT IS PRESENTED IN A VERY DETAILED, HISTORIC, AND WELL RESEARCHED VERSION. IT IS FIRST A HISTORY OF THE YEAR BY YEAR DISAPPOIMENTS THIS FRANCHISE WENT THROUGH. THEN IT IS A DAY BY DAY TELLING OF THAT ONE GREAT SEASON. IT IS IN THIS DAY BY DAY RERELLING THAT THIS BOOK REALLY STANDS OUT. IT ALSO HAS GREAT PHOTOS THAT REALLY STAND OUT AND HELP BRING THE STORY COME TOGETHER. A MUST READ FOR NOSALGIA AND FANS OF ST LOUIS.