Providence Journal: ‘I have never read a baseball book I enjoyed more’
In a rave review of Fifty-nine in ’84 in The Providence Journal, John Monaghan writes: “I have never read a baseball book I enjoyed more, and I’ve read a lot of them. … If you’re a baseball fan, you owe it to yourself to read this one.”
Recalling that his grandfather told him about the Providence Grays many decades ago, Monaghan noted that “Achorn has crafted a biography of arguably the best pitcher in history and, with it, a vision of my city as experienced by my grandparents and my great-grandparents.”
He praised Achorn’s “massive documentation of the games and the men who played them, of the rules and the equipment of the 1880s, of the mores of the ballplayers, of the quest by the club owners for solvency and profits” and touted the love story of Radbourn and Carrie Stanhope.
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