{"product_id":"bushville-wins-the-wild-saga-of-the-1957-milwaukee-braves-and-the-screwballs-sluggers-and-beer-swiggers-who-canned-the-new-york-yankees-and-change-paperback","title":"Bushville Wins!: The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned the New York Yankees and Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Klima\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rip-roaring story of baseball's most unlikely champions, featuring interviews with Henry Aaron, Bob Uecker and other members of the Milwaukee Braves, \u003ci\u003eBushville Wins!\u003c\/i\u003e takes you to a time and place baseball and the Heartland will never forget.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bushville hits the sweet spot of my childhood, the year my family moved to Wisconsin and the Braves won the World Series against the Yankees, a team my Brooklyn-raised dad taught us to hate. Thanks to John Klima for bringing it all back to life with such vivid detail and energetic writing.\" -- David Maraniss, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eClemente\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhen Pride Still Mattered\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early 1950s, the New York Yankees were the biggest bullies on the block. They were invincible: they led the New York City baseball dynasty, which for eight consecutive years held an iron grip on the World Series championship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, becoming surprise revolutionaries. Led by visionary owner Lou Perini, the Braves formed a powerful relationship with the Miller Brewing Company and foreshadowed the Dodgers and Giants moving west, sparking continental expansion and the ballpark boom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the rest of the country wasn't sold. Why would a major league team move to a minor league town? In big cities like New York, Milwaukee was thought to be a podunk train station stop-off where the fans were always drunk and wouldn't know a baseball from a beer. They called Milwaukee \u003ci\u003eBushville\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Braves were no bushers! Eddie Mathews was a handsome home run hitter with a rugged edge. Warren Spahn was the craftiest pitcher in the business. Lew Burdette was a sharky spitball artist. Taken together, the Braves reveled in the High Life and made Milwaukee famous, while Wisconsin fans showed the rest of the country how to crack a cold one and throw a tailgate party. And in 1954, a solemn and skinny slugger came from Mobile to Milwaukee. Henry Aaron began his march to history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a cast of screwballs, sluggers and beer swiggers, the Braves proved the guys at the corner bar could do the impossible - topple Casey Stengel's New York baseball dynasty in a World Series for the ages.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Klima is the author of \u003ci\u003eWillie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and The Making of a Baseball Legend\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2009). His story, \u003ci\u003eDeal of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by \u003ci\u003eWhen Pride Still Mattered: Lombardi\u003c\/i\u003e author David Maraniss to appear in the 2007 edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Sports Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. Klima's work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Yahoo! Sports, ESPN.com and\u003ci\u003e The Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. A former national baseball columnist and minor league radio play-by-play announcer, Klima is also a professionally trained baseball scout who studied with legendary scouts, and is a graduate of the Major League Baseball Scout Development Program. He holds a degree in cultural anthropology and spent his boyhood summers sitting in the outfield cheap seats of Milwaukee County Stadium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53464593432883,"sku":"9781250006165","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/6mz9-i00s99781250006165.webp?v=1783159605","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/bushville-wins-the-wild-saga-of-the-1957-milwaukee-braves-and-the-screwballs-sluggers-and-beer-swiggers-who-canned-the-new-york-yankees-and-change-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}