Fans who think the game is wild now will appreciate Hetrick's account of Von der Ahe...who throughout the 1880s was embroiled in legal battles and baseball disputes that culminated in his own kidnapping and his stadium being burned to the ground. Direct ancestor to today's Cardinals, the Browns won the pennant four years in a row under his wild leadership. - REFERENCE AND RESEARCH BOOK NEWS
Author Biography
J. Thomas Hetrick has been a long-standing member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
