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
"Remarkable detail and inside stories never before printed, thanks in large part to a series of interviews with key figures of that time...compelling and entertaining." --Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel."Bushville Wins!breezily recounts garrulous tales of a team embraced by its new hometown. John Klima paints colorful portraits of Eddie Mathews and drinking buddies Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, Bob Buhl -- the team that beat the hated New York Yankees for Milwaukee's first and only World Series championship." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"(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 they humbled a dynasty, brought pride to the provinces and reshaped baseball's geography. There are teams that won more but few that did half as much."-- The Wall Street Journal"Some books are just fun to read. Bushville Wins! is one of them. There are lots of good stories and Klima tells them with enthusiasm -- I never heard about the four 'a--hole buddies!' --The Madison Capital Times"John Klima spins a wonderful tale.I may seem overly enthusiastic, but my reactions is genuine -- this is the single best book about the Braves franchise written today".--TalkingChop.com“[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 Timesbestselling 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.Bushvilleis a winner." – Mark Frost,New York Timesbestselling 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 Timesbestselling author ofOpening Day“One of baseball’s finest, and most overlooked, seasons finally gets the chronicle it deserves. Thoroughly reported and elegantly written,Bushvillerecaptures a time and place--1950s Milwaukee--with loving detail. Except perhaps for Yankees fans, baseball lovers will want to keepBushvilleon their bookshelf.” --Cait Murphy, author ofCrazy '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