Title

The summer of beer and whiskey : how brewers, barkeeps, rowdies, immigrants, and a wild pennant fight made baseball America's game / Edward Achorn.

Author

Achorn, Edward

Publication

New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]

Items in the Library & Offsite

Details

Description

xiv, 318 pages : illistrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Baseball > United States > History
• American Association (Baseball league : 1882-1891) History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: The Love Affair -- Chapter 1. In the Big Inning -- Chapter 2. The Beer and Whiskey Circuit -- Chapter 3. The Minstrel Star -- Chapter 4. The Moses of St. Louis -- Chapter 5. The Shrimp -- Chapter 6. Who's in Charge? -- Chapter 7. The $300 Special -- Chapter 8. Base Ball Mad -- Chapter 9. First-Class Drunkards -- Chapter 10. Cap Anson's Nightmare -- Chapter 11. Flinging the Watch -- Chapter 12. Jumping Jack -- Chapter 13. Hurricane in St. Louis -- Chapter 14. Limping Home -- Chapter 15. A Great Boom for Base Ball -- Epilogue: When They Slide Home -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: American Association, 1883 -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781610392600 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1610392604 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781610392617 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013000200

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library