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John Douglass Wallop III (March 8, 1920 – April 1, 1985) was an American novelist and playwright.
Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend [1] set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball.
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.
Douglass Wallop has 31 books on Goodreads with 895 ratings. Douglass Wallop’s most popular book is The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Douglass Wallop was born on 8 March 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a writer, known for Damn Yankees (1958), Damn Yankees and Damn Yankees! (1967). He was married to Lucille Fletcher. He died on 1 April 1985 in Georgetown, Maryland, USA.
- Writer, Additional Crew
- March 8, 1920
- Douglass Wallop
- April 1, 1985
May 22, 2020 · The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (aka: Damn Yankees) by Douglass Wallop. Decades before Field of Dreams there was The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the classic baseball fable that became the hit movie and musical Damn Yankees.
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