Friday, December 10, 2021

The Summer of Beer and Whiskey--#84 finished

 This book was actually finished at end of Nov but just now getting around to logging it in.  This book about the early days of baseball when a few teams joined together to form the American Association, separate from the other main league the National League.  With teams in towns the National League left or never entered and targeting more working class people the brought back some enthusiasm to the game in these cities.  They charged less to get in, sold beer & whiskey and played Sunday games.  An interesting read about baseball in those early years and some of the great characters of the game.  I enjoyed the book.

There is 1 WL for it so will probably post & send off at some point but no hurry since does talk a lot about the St Louis Browns which eventually became the Cardinals.  With the local angle might put on the keeper shelf, not sure yet.

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