The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
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How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
A vivid history of the summer of 1883- when a band of saloonkeepers, brewers and distillers transformed the stodgy game of baseball into America's national pastime
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- ISBN: 9781610393775
- Author: Edward Achorn
- Pub date: 29.04.14
- RRP: $39.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Edward Achorn
Edward Achorn, a journalist and Pulitzer prize finalist for distinguished commentary, is the deputy editorial pages editor of the Providence Journal and author of Fifty-Nine in'84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had. He has won numerous writing awards and his work appears in The Best Newspaper Writing, 2007-2008. His reviews of books on American history appear frequently in the Weekly Standard. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island.