Dallas Morning News: ‘Captivating look back at … raw, dangerous and exciting’ era
The Dallas Morning News, in a rave review of Fifty-nine in ’84, notes that “Achorn’s engaging prose, peppered with copious quotes from 19th-century journalists, reads like an eyewitness account.”
The Morning News called the book “more than just the chronicles of one man’s record-breaking feat. It is a captivating look back at a time when baseball, like America, was raw, dangerous and exciting.”
Reviewer David LaBounty, who edits The First Line literary journal of Plano, Texas, writes: “Like any good history book, Fifty-nine in ’84 is a link to the past that helps us understand the present. Baseball, like America, has changed dramatically over the years, surviving strikes, scandals and bloodshed. Part of the charm of Achorn’s book is realizing that no matter how much time passes, some things never change: outrageous salaries, cheating players, terrible umpires, colorful sportswriters, hating teams from New York and even skipping work to attend a game on opening day.”
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