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The summer of beer and whiskey : how brewers, barkeeps, rowdies, immigrants, and a wild pennant fight made baseball America's game / Edward Achorn.
- 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]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV875.A57 .A35 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 318 pages : illistrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Describes how a German-born biergarten owner who knew nothing about baseball bought the St. Louis Browns baseball team in an effort to sell more beer and unwittingly formed the American League and revitalized the sport.
- Subjects
- 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
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- Harvard Library