Bushville Wins!: The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned the New York Yankees and Changed Baseball, by John Klima
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"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, New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered
The rip-roaring story of baseball's most unlikely champions, featuring new interviews with Henry Aaron, Bob Uecker and other members of the Milwaukee Braves, Bushville Wins! takes you to a time and place baseball and the Heartland will never forget.
In 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.
Then 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.
But 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 Bushville.
The 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.
With 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.
Bushville Wins!: The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned the New York Yankees and Changed Baseball, by John Klima - Amazon Sales Rank: #131403 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.24" h x .92" w x 5.55" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Bushville Wins!: The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned the New York Yankees and Changed Baseball, by John Klima Review
“[Klima] tells a great story well, makes a dead era vivid and focuses on what really mattered about a wonderful team. The Braves may have won just once, but in so doing they humbled a dynasty, brought pride to the provinces and helped reshape baseball's geography. There are teams that won more championships but few that did half as much.” ―The Wall Street Journal
“A veteran baseball writer chronicles the unlikely triumph of big-league baseball's first small-market team… A rollicking read that captures the spirit of the team, the city and a unique moment in baseball history.” ―Kirkus
“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 energentic writing.” ―David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered
“An irresistible tale, beautifully told, about one of the most colorful - and neglected - underdog champions in baseball history. Bushville is a winner.” ―Mark Frost, New York Times bestselling Author
“Screwballs, sluggers and beer-swiggers? Those are my kind of people, and this is my kind of book. Bushville Wins! is captivating from beginning to end, a dramatic story told with marvelous writing and meticulous research. Highly recommended.” ―Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Opening Day
“One of baseball's finest, and most overlooked, seasons finally gets the chronicle it deserves. Thoroughly reported and elegantly written, Bushville recaptures a time and place--1950s Milwaukee--with loving detail. Except perhaps for Yankees fans, baseball lovers will want to keep Bushville on their bookshelf.” ―Cait Murphy, author of Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
“Klima (Willie's Boys) weaves the team's "sense of destiny" with a Milwaukee fan's obsession and a journalist's eye in relating this "David versus Goliath" baseball saga that avoids the braggadocio of others of its ilk.” ―Publishers Weekly
From the Author Questions people ask John Klima about Bushville Wins! Q: Did I speak to Henry Aaron? A: Yes. I called him Mr. Aaron. What was I supposed to do, call him Hank? We talked about what Milwaukee was like in the 1950s, what the Braves were like. We talked about his relationships with Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn. We went through some of the big moments and big at-bats. It was a really productive interview and I think it shows in the book. He made his lineup better -- and he made my book better. And I didn't even have to pitch to him. (I would have walked him.) Q: Did the Milwaukee Braves really "change" baseball?A: Yes. Ask Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas, Oakland, Arizona, Seattle, Kansas City, Minnesota, San Diego, Miami, Toronto, Tampa. The Milwaukee Braves proved the expansion model we know today worked: new markets, new ballparks, new fans, new TV deals. But when owner Lou Perini moved the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, he was laughed at. Mr. Perini was vastly ahead of his time, easily by 25 or 30 years, and for this reason his vision and his team changed the game, and he belongs in the Hall of Fame. I know some of the fans in Milwaukee are still mad about the move to Atlanta, but the Brewers are there because the Braves were there first. Q: Did the ballplayers really talk like this, drink like this, fight like this, or are you making this stuff up?A: Nope. I wrote them the way they were, because Milwaukee loved them for who they were. It is an honest book. This is how ballplayers think, talk and act. I've been around them my entire career. My goal was to put the fan not in the stands -- but in the dugout or on the field. Q: Why didn't anyone do this story before you?A: Because after the Braves finally got over the hump in 1957, they blew it in 1958. For the Yankees to admit that they won in 1958 would mean they would have to explain what Casey Stengel was thinking when he opened his mouth in 1957. And that just ain't the Yankee way. Q: Why do John Klima's baseball books sound so much different than many other baseball authors?A: Because I've been in the game for a long time. I've seen it from the inside out, from top to bottom. If you want baseball literature written the way people who populate the game are, I'm your guy. I came up as a sportswriter, but I don't write like one at all. I don't use standard jargon. I don't write like every word is profound. I don't rely on strained analogies or pop culture references that have nothing to do with the subject. I also possess a far greater base of historical knowledge because I read a great deal of old material. I have many different influences that help my baseball writing, and as a result, I think my facility with language and ability to out-research others really helps the book "play up" as the scouts might say. Q: Who else did you talk to for this book?A: In addition to Mr. Aaron, there was Bob Uecker, Del Crandall, Red Schoendienst, Frank Torre, Johnny Logan and the families of Lou Perini and sportswriter Lou Chapman. Q: If you were scouting Henry Aaron in 1957, what would your report say?A: Loose, athletic body. Fast, quick-twitch actions. Ability to recognize pitches, start hands, generate tremendous bat speed, compact swing with ferocious uppercut. Good first step out of the box, better underway. Rangy outfielder with a plus arm. Plus, plus raw power with Triple Crown potential in his best years. Chance to be a cornerstone bat for many years to come. All I need to sign him is 15 grand. Of course, that was in 1952....his price would be a little different nowadays.
From the Back Cover Klima spoke at length with Hank Aaron, who describes why Milwaukee provided the most meaningful home run and describes the impact the Milwaukee years had on his baseball career. He also shares a artfully profane interview with Bob Uecker, then just a high school kid named Bobby dreaming of one day becoming a Brave. Also with new interviews with Frank Torre, Red Schoendienst, Del Crandall, unpublished notes from Casey Stengel and Jackie Robinson, and a never-before published photo of Mickey Mantle really, really drunk.
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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful. Close but no cigar By Cloie I grew up in the fifties and followed baseball with a passion. I, like many kids at the time collected baseball cards and I had the facts and figures memorized from the backs of thousands of those cards. I played baseball through college and still play adult softball today. Therein lies the rub. I found a number of factual or intuitive errors in the book, mostly in the chapters dealing with the 1957 World Series. Errors of this type bother me, because it makes me wonder about the rest of the reporting that I am unfamiliar with. I know, for example, that Gene Conley threw right-handed, not left-handed. I also know Tom Sturdivant threw right-handed, not left. And I know that a second baseman cannot range to his "left behind the bag." In at least one case these kinds of factual errors led the author to make assumptions that could not have been true (for instance that left-handed batting Frank Torre hit so well against left-handed pitchers that Braves manager Fred Haney started him against Sturdivant). Oops! True if it had been Whitey Ford, but not Sturdivant.Had I not bumped into these errors in the last third of the book, I would have given this book a higher rating, because up to that point Klima's writing was simply wonderful. Case in point, I don't know if there has ever been a better analysis of Brave owner Lou Perini's role as a baseball visionary, or in his special care in looking out for and welcoming Hank Aaron.If during the second printing of this book, an editor goes through this book with a discerning eye to remove the factual and interpretive errors, this is a five-star book in every way. And to those of you that might think that I am nitpicking, I remind you that a brain surgeon can't be mostly right.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A wonderful portrait of a simpler era By Don Kaegi After I recently saw a review of this book in the Wall Street Journal, I immediately downloaded it to my Kindle. As a former Milwaukee boy who was seven years old when the Braves won the World Series, I was not disappointed. Of course, I didn't know about beer drinking and all night partying at that age and I sure didn't think my hometown was Bushville. What I did know is that the Braves were my team and I loved going to County Stadium to watch them play. Having them win the '57 Series (and beat the hated Yankees) was frosting on the cake.Being only seven at the time and not necessarily being a student of baseball history, I cannot critique the book based on its accuracy. I do remember, for example, that the Journal was the evening paper in Milwaukee, not the morning one, so I am sure there might be a few factual errors elsewhere. Nonetheless, I found Mr. Klima's book to be a wonderful recounting of a different time in America before the internet and 24 hour news cycle. It was a time when baseball writers would drink with the players all night yet keep their secrets to themselves. Good or bad, it was a gentler, more innocent time that I frequently long for.I highly recommend this book to anyone who grew in Milwaukee or simply wants to read a tale of a baseball team that came together at just the right team under an owner and manager who were ahead of their time. I had never given thought to the fact that Lou Perini was a pioneer who blazed the way for the Dodgers and the Giants to move West. I also learned many more interesting stories but I will leave the readers to find those for themselves.It was a great read and definitely worth buying.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A Baseball Masterpierce By John Schulz I can't tell you how many fond memories John Klima rekindled as a result of his painstaking research and fine writing. I'm 62 and that 1957 season is one of my first memories of baseball. Klima splendidly captures that team, the era, Milwaukee and its ravenous fans like a slick 6-4-3 double play. Nicely done! Klima writes like a dream. Even his game story coverage sizzles -- 55 years after deadline. If you like baseball, this book is a welcome addition to your library. But it's more about an era, the opening of baseball to the Midwest and beyond, the visionaries who created the Milwaukee Braves. It's a home run.
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