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Ladataan... The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball Americas Game (vuoden 2013 painos)Tekijä: Edward Achorn (Tekijä)
TeostiedotThe Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game (tekijä: Edward Achorn)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Interesting, well-researched book takes us back to a time when baseball was nothing like it is today--or for that matter, nothing like it was even 50 or 75 years ago. Back to the days when a team had two pitchers and one might pitch both ends of a doubleheader. Or when one of the owners might have to step in and play right field when a player was injured during the game and there were no substitutes available. Or when a pitcher could earn the name "Jumping Jack Jones" for his delivery, which included jumping in the air to throw his fastball. This is the story of the American Association in 1883 and the pennant race between the St. Louis Browns, the main focus on the book, and the Philadelphia Athletics. It's also a book that touches upon the story of Moses Fleetwood Walker, the major leagues' first black player, long before Jackie Robinson, and the hateful racism of baseball legend Cap Anson, who refused to let his team play if Walker was on the field. And there's so much more here as well. You'll come away with a much better understanding of 19th century baseball, including how the game itself was played, what the men who played it were like, what their owners were like, what travel was like (horrendous), and what the fanatics--because that was what they were called then--were like. How I would love to have a time machine that let me go back and see one of those great contests between the Browns and Athletics. ( ) A very interesting read about baseball during the late 1800s, a time I didn’t really know much about. I’ve heard of some of the players the author was referencing, but the majority were strangers to me, but what an interesting cast of characters. I can’t imagine what life must have been like back then, but this book helps bring a slice of it to life. Started off slow, and often repetitive. Started to move along quicker in the middle - but by then I felt like I was making time to read it. Stuck somewhere between academic and entertaining writing - Achorn obviously pored over the historical newspapers in his research. To have access to personal letters and surviving family members may have helped to better flesh out the characters in this book - who all still seem stuck in the past. And like in so many other areas in life - it could've used more beer and whiskey. näyttää 4/4
. . . "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey" can occasionally feel a bit repetitive. Mr. Achorn, by necessity, relies on newspaper accounts of the time and their sometimes monotonous descriptions. Many of the players come to seem nearly identical: There are only so many ways to say that a guy was a womanizer and drinker. (To be fair, the newspaper sportswriters used almost all of them.) The author also gets a little bogged down in the details of the pennant chase; certain sections require tolerance for agate text from the late 1880s that exceeds my own. But he still does a terrific job of sketching this world and just how much fun everyone was having. Palkinnot
Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about base¬ball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important--and funniest--figures in the game's history. Von der Ahe picked up the team for one reason--to sell more beer. Then he helped gather a group of ragtag professional clubs together to create a maverick new league that would fight the haughty National League, reinventing big-league baseball to attract Americans of all classes. Sneered at as "The Beer and Whiskey Circuit" because it was backed by brewers, distillers, and saloon owners, their American Association brought Americans back to enjoying baseball by offering Sunday games, beer at the ballpark, and a dirt-cheap ticket price of 25 cents. The womanizing, egocentric, wildly generous Von der Ahe and his fellow owners filled their teams' rosters with drunks and renegades, and drew huge crowds of rowdy spectators who screamed at umpires and cheered like mad as the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns fought to the bitter end for the 1883 pennant. In The Summer of Beer and Whiskey, Edward Achorn re-creates this wondrous and hilarious world of cunning, competition, and boozing, set amidst a rapidly transforming America. It is a classic American story of people with big dreams, no shortage of chutzpah, and love for a brilliant game that they refused to let die. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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