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TIME: 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Tatnuck Event Room
DESCRIPTION: Join author Edward Achorn from 1-3 p.m. as he discusses and signs his new book, "Fifty-nine in '84, Old Hoss Radbourn, barehanded baseball & the greatest season a pitcher ever had." In 1884, Providence Grays pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn won an astonshing 59 games - more than anyone in major-league history ever had before, or ever will again. He then went on to win all three games of baseball's first World Series. "Fifty-nine in '84" tells not only the dramatic story of that amazing feat of grit, but also the tale of big league baseball two decades after the Civil War - a brutal, bloody sport played barehanded, the profession of ill-educated, hard-drinking men who thought little of cheating outrageously or maiming an opponent to win. It's also the story of the woman Radbourn loved, Carrie Stanhope, the alluring proprietess of a boarding house with shady overtones, a married lady who was said to know every man in the National League personally. Wonderfully entertaining, "Fifty-nine in '84" is an indelible portrait of a legendary player and a fascinating, little-known era of the national pastime.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
TITLE: Author Event: Edward Achorn - "Fifty-Nine in '84"TIME: 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Tatnuck Event Room
DESCRIPTION: Join author Edward Achorn from 1-3 p.m. as he discusses and signs his new book, "Fifty-nine in '84, Old Hoss Radbourn, barehanded baseball & the greatest season a pitcher ever had." In 1884, Providence Grays pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn won an astonshing 59 games - more than anyone in major-league history ever had before, or ever will again. He then went on to win all three games of baseball's first World Series. "Fifty-nine in '84" tells not only the dramatic story of that amazing feat of grit, but also the tale of big league baseball two decades after the Civil War - a brutal, bloody sport played barehanded, the profession of ill-educated, hard-drinking men who thought little of cheating outrageously or maiming an opponent to win. It's also the story of the woman Radbourn loved, Carrie Stanhope, the alluring proprietess of a boarding house with shady overtones, a married lady who was said to know every man in the National League personally. Wonderfully entertaining, "Fifty-nine in '84" is an indelible portrait of a legendary player and a fascinating, little-known era of the national pastime.
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