{"product_id":"fifty-nine-in-84-old-hoss-radbourn-barehanded-baseball-and-the-greatest-season-a-pitcher-ever-had-0061825875","title":"Fifty-nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0061825875\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Achorn, Edward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn's description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive.\" -Boston GlobeA 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. Ellis, Pulitzer prize-winning historianIn 1884 Providence Grays pitcher Charles \"Old Hoss\" Radbourn won an astounding fifty-nine games-more than anyone in major-league history ever had before, or has since. He then went on to win all three games of baseball's first World Series.Fifty-nine in '84 tells the dramatic story not only of that amazing feat of grit but also of big-league baseball two decades after the Civil War-a brutal, bloody sport played barehanded, the profession of uneducated, hard-drinking men who thought little of cheating outrageously or maiming an opponent to win.Wonderfully entertaining, Fifty-nine in '84 is an indelible portrait of a legendary player and a fascinating, little-known era of the national pastime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51526332088608,"sku":"NEW0061825875","price":12.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/716lXlZ3qBL.jpg?v=1777191542","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/fifty-nine-in-84-old-hoss-radbourn-barehanded-baseball-and-the-greatest-season-a-pitcher-ever-had-0061825875","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}