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Eric Vickrey is the author of three nonfiction baseball books: Runnin' Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals (McFarland, 2023), Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash that Changed Everything (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), and Before They Wore Dodger Blue: Tommy Lasorda and the Greatest Draft Class in Baseball History (August Publications, 2025). He lives in Washington state. ...more

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	Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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On the morning of June 24, 1946, the Spokane Indians baseball club departed Eastern Washington in a 25-passenger prewar bus bound for Bremerton, a Navy town across the Puget Sound from Seattle. Sixteen of the team’s eighteen players were on board. Two pitchers, Joe Faria and Milt Cadinha, made other arrangements. Rather than endure another long, bumpy bus ride, Faria decided to drive his new Cadil

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