Books in Brief: The Dizziest Season

The Dizziest Season, by G. H. Fleming (Morrow, 320 pp., $15.95)

Professor Fleming here does for the 1934 National League pennant race’ what he did for the 1908 race in The Unforgettable Season (1981), and with the same happy result. He recreates the entire season, from the St. Louis Cardinals’ point of view, with contemporary newspaper accounts by such classic sportswriters as Dan Daniel, Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon,