Overview
Suds Series takes readers back forty years, treating them to a story that is part baseball history, part urban history, and part U.S. cultural history. The narrative weaves together the development of the heavily German-influenced Midwest cities of St. Louis and Milwaukee through their engagement with beer and baseball, beginning with the nineteenth-century American Association, better known as the “Beer and Whisky League.” By the 1890s, Augustus Busch owned the St. Louis Cardinals, while in Milwaukee, not only was the team that had moved there from Seattle in 1970 now named the “Brewers,” but the Miller Brewing Company was one of their major sponsors. Even nominal baseball fans will enjoy reading about legendary players, teams, and personalities that emerged in the 1982 season, the year Ricky Henderson stole 130 bases to set a new Major League record; Reggie Jackson led the league in homeruns; Fernando Valenzuela stood as a cultural icon for Mexican American fans; and Cal Ripken Jr. began his legendary playing streak. Those readers who lived through the 1980s will enjoy the many cultural references and recollections from the summer of ‘82, including the Pac-Man craze, SNL and Late Night, a chart-topping album by Rush, and the “Light Beer Wars” waged by Anheuser-Bush and Miller Brewing through a series of TV commercials, which featured popular sports figures.
Full Product Details
Author: J. Daniel
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Imprint: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826222800
ISBN 10: 0826222803
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Inactive
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This is a fun, fast ride through one of baseball's most enjoyable seasons. --Nathan Michael Corzine, author of Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball
This is a fun, fast ride through one of baseball's most enjoyable seasons--one that includes coverage of two overlooked gems, the season-concluding series between the Brewers and the Orioles, and the Brewers and the Angels. --Nathan Michael Corzine, Coastal Carolina Community College, author of Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball
Author Information
"Jonathan ""J."" Daniel spent twenty years working in sports, both in front of and behind the camera, producing five seasons of Rays Magazine, a weekly television show about the Tampa Bay Rays, and working as a sports producer at Fox affiliates in Tampa and Chicago. He currently works in communications for Indiana University. He is the author of Phinally!: The Phillies, the Royals, and the 1980 Baseball Season That Almost Wasn't and blogs at www.80sbaseball.com."
