Douglass Wallop

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Douglass Wallop (1920 - 1985), novelist and playwright, was born John Douglass Wallop on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the 13th of that name.

He authored 13 works but is most famous for his baseball novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, (1954) made into the the Tony Award winning Broadway Musical Damn Yankees, for which Wallop supplied the book in collaboration with the play's director, George Abbott.


He was married in 1949 to the writer, actress and novelist Lucille Fletcher who survived him.

  • Night Light (1953)
  • The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
  • Ocean Front (1963)
  • The Good Life (1969)
  • Howard's Bag (1973)
  • The Other Side of the River (1984)

"Baseball:An Informal History" (1969)

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