The summer of beer and whiskey: how brewers, barkeeps, rowdies, immigrants, and a wild pennant fight made baseball America's game
Sports and games, United States history, Sports biography, Baseball
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Describes how German-born beer garden owner Chris Von der Ahe, who knew nothing about baseball, bought the St. Louis Browns baseball team in an effort to sell more beer--and unwittingly formed the American League and revitalized the sport in the 1880s. 2013
Title Details
ISBN
9781610393775
Publisher
Public Affairs
Copyright Date
2014
Book number
4389530
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Kurt Elftmann
Duration
10 hours 56 minutes 58 seconds
Audio producer
Potomac Talking Book Services