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The Summer Of Beer And Whiskey, May 2013
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THE SUMMER OF BEER AND WHISKEY
By: Edward Achorn

PublicAffairs
May 2013
On Sale: April 30, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 1610392604
EAN: 9781610392600
Kindle: B00BOE1DZC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

Chris Von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the St. Louis Browns, 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 clubs into a maverick new league that would fight the haughty National League. Sneered at as “The Beer and Whiskey Circuit,” their American Association ended up revitalizing the sport, bringing Americans of all classes back to the ballpark. Their recipe: Sunday games, booze, 25-cent-tickets, with teams comprised of exciting, renegade, and often drunk, players.

Edward Achorn re-creates this wondrous and hilarious world and illuminates a long-forgotten turning point in American baseball history.

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All Things Considered - April 27, 2013