Books by Edward Achorn
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review 1: I am fascinated by professional sports in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While the players may not have been as big, fast, or strong and modern athletes, they seem a thousand times more rugged and tough. This book focuses on a pitcher who played in the barehanded era...
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review 1: The baseball historian will thrill to this detailed analysis of the 1884 season in the American Association - the cheaper, boozier, crasser competitor to the struggling and stuck-up National League of the era. Focusing on the pennant race between the Philadelphia Athletics and th...
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review 1: Even most hardcore baseball fans' knowledge of the sport does not extend back before the early 20th century - the Black Sox scandal, the Cubs consecutive World Series pennants, Ty Cobb's early days. Yet by that point, baseball had already been played in America for over 50 years...