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The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
First edition cover
AuthorDouglass Wallop
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
Publication date
September 9, 1954[1]
Media typePrint
Pages250

The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant is a 1954 novel by Douglass Wallop. It adapts the Faust theme of a deal with the Devil to the world of American baseball in the 1950s.

  1. ^ "List of the Books Published Today". The New York Times: 29. September 9, 1954.

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