"All fans of baseball, all fans of a good story, will love this book." -- Professor Gordon Wood, Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winner "This is a beautifully written, meticulously researched story about a bygone Baseball era that even die-hard fans will find foreign, and about a Pitcher who might have been the Greatest of all time." -- Joseph J.
Set against the backdrop of 19th century baseball, Fifty-Nine in \'84 gives readers a glimpse of the dangerous and violent game that preceded the sport we enjoy today..
Ellis, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Following in the tradition of the sleeper bestseller Crazy \'08, Fifty-Nine in \'84 is the story of Charles Radbourn, a brilliant major league Baseball Pitcher who, in the 1884 season, won an astonishing 59 games, a record that has nEver been broken. "All fans of baseball, all fans of a good story, will love this book." -- Professor Gordon Wood, Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winner "This is a beautifully written, meticulously researched story about a bygone Baseball era that even die-hard fans will find foreign, and about a Pitcher who might have been the Greatest of all time." -- Joseph J
