'A salute to you, Old Hoss,' from the Los Angeles Daily News
“We knew there was something more about good ol’ Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn than just his obscene statistics,” writes Tom Hoffarth in The Los Angeles Daily News.
“The manner in which the Baseball Hall of Famer shattered his own big-league record for wins in a season — some say it was 60, even 62, but most settle on 59 — as he sore-armed pitched the Providence Grays to the very first World Series title in 1884 is all deftly chronicled in the new book, Fifty-Nine in `84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had .”
Tom goes on to note author Edward Achorn’s description of the one-fingered gesture that Radbourn immortalized in an opening day photograph!
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