carafes & pitchers
fifty nine in 84 old hoss radbourn barehanded baseball and the greatest season a pitcher ever had
p in 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 baseballs first world series . p 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 . p it is the tale too of the woman radbourn loved carrie stanhope the alluring proprietress of a boarding house with shady overtones a married lady who was said to have personally known every man in the national league . p wonderfully entertaining fifty nine in 84 is an indelible portrait of a legendary player and a fascinating little known era of the national pastime .