The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game - Edward Achorn

Edward Achorn , a journalist and Pulitzer prize finalist for distinguished commentary, is the deputy editorial pages editor of the Providence Journal and author of Fifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had . He has won numerous writing awards and his work appears in The Best Newspaper Writing, 2007-2008 . His reviews of books on American history appear frequently in the Weekly Standard . He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island.