Fifty-nine in '84 - Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a

"First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn''s description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive." -- Boston Globe "A beautifully written, meticulously researched story about a bygone baseball era that even die-hard fans will find foreign, and about a pitcher who might have been the greatest of all time." -- Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer prize-winning historian In 1884 Providence Grays pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn won an astounding fifty-nine games--more than anyone in major-league history ever had before, or has since. He then went on to win all three games of baseball''s first World Series. Fifty-nine in ''84 tells the dramatic story not only of that amazing feat of grit but also of big-league baseball two decades after the Civil War--a brutal, bloody sport played barehanded, the profession of uneducated, hard-drinking men who thought little of cheating outrageously or maiming an opponent to win. Wonderfully entertaining, Fifty-nine in ''84 is an indelible portrait of a legendary player and a fascinating, little-known era of the national pastime.

Info autore

Edward Achorn, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for distinguished commentary, is the deputy editorial pages editor of the Providence Journal.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Edward Achorn, Achorn Edward
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.02.2011
• EAN: 9780061825873
• ISBN: 978-0-06-182587-3
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 26 mm
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