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Davies, Valentine It Happens Every Spring
New York Farrar, Straus and Company 1949 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Fair dj Illustrated by (dj) R.M. Powers
[moderately shelfworn, slight turn to spine, bottom corners bumped; jacket torn, missing large piece at top left-hand corner of front panel, extending to top of spine (most of spine title gone, "It" removed from front panel), plus a few other tiny tears and general wear]. Scarce baseball-fantasy novel by the author of the Christmas classic "Miracle on 34th Street," about a young chemistry instructor who concocts a secret formula that turns a mediocre pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals into a phenom. Per the jacket blurb, this book "is not a motion picture edition, but is based on the 20th Century-Fox production....starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters, and Paul Douglas." (Hence, a novelization.) Davies also did the screenplay for the film, sharing story credit with someone named Shirley W. Smith, who appears to have had no other screen credits, ever. From a baseball-history standpoint, it's notable that the book and movie both pointedly avoid specifying whether the team involved in the narrative is the Cardinals or the Browns, or indeed even whether they're supposed to be in the National League or the American League: the only team they play by name during the season is "Chicago," and when they make it to the World Series their opponent is "New York." Reportedly this stemmed from the refusal of baseball commissioner Happy Chandler to sanction the movie, seeing as how it depicted a form of cheating (essentially, illicit drug use!); imagine a guy named Happy having no sense of humor. (Look carefully, though, and on page 180 you'll find a reference to the pennant race that involves the Cincinnati team -- aha!)
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