Recently, a fan of my Legend of Mickey Tussler series sent me an email telling me about a book that she was certain I would love. In light of the fact that my Tussler series centers around the Milwaukee Brewers (minor league affiliate of the Boston Braves) in the late 1940’s, she figured that so much of what I had written (although largely fictionalized) was germane to the history presented in the artfully written book 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. To say she was correct is a colossal understatement.
Klima’s book is one of the best I have read in a long time. It is compelling, entertaining, and utterly irresistible. Mr. Klima does a stellar job in presenting the myriad personalities of the various players on this storied Braves team, including high profile names like Warren Spahn (who makes a cameo appearance in my first Mickey Tussler novel), Lew Burdette, Bob Buhl, and Eddie Matthews. Klima further delights the reader with vivid, anecdotal accounts of various baseball scenes that are both endearing and entertaining. His style is fresh and crisp and his approach to this special period in Milwaukee baseball history, including of course the 1957 World Series, is wonderfully refreshing.
Post WWII is a wonderful period in history, and baseball seemed to thrive during this epoch. The charm that many cities possessed at this juncture, Milwaukee included, make for wonderful backdrops to a variety of stories. This is the reason that I selected Milwaukee as the setting for my Mickey Tussler novels. What is more inviting than a tiny metropolis dotted here and there with bakeries, tiny shops and breweries? And of course, plenty of hard working, salt of the earth denizens who just love their baseball!
This was the perfect place for my character Mickey to thrive and of course as Klima suggests, the perfect place to refute the erroneous belief that Milwaukee was “Bushville” and certainly not ready for major league baseball.
This is truly a remarkable work - -a deft amalgamation of ingenuity and baseball lore -- one that is a must for not only Milwaukee baseball fans but for baseball fans everywhere.
the artfully written book 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. To say she was correct is a colossal understatement.
Klima’s book is one of the best I have read in a long time. It is compelling, entertaining, and utterly irresistible. Mr. Klima does a stellar job in presenting the myriad personalities of the various players on this storied Braves team, including high profile names like Warren Spahn (who makes a cameo appearance in my first Mickey Tussler novel), Lew Burdette, Bob Buhl, and Eddie Matthews. Klima further delights the reader with vivid, anecdotal accounts of
various baseball scenes that are both endearing and entertaining. His style is fresh and crisp and his approach to this special period in Milwaukee baseball history, including of course the 1957 World Series, is wonderfully refreshing.
Post WWII is a wonderful period in history, and baseball seemed to thrive during this epoch. The charm that many cities possessed at this juncture, Milwaukee included, make for wonderful backdrops to a variety of stories. This is the reason that I selected Milwaukee as the setting for my Mickey Tussler novels. What is more inviting than a tiny metropolis dotted here and there with bakeries, tiny shops and breweries? And of course, plenty of hard working, salt
of the earth denizens who just love their baseball!
This was the perfect place for my character Mickey to thrive and of course as Klima suggests, the perfect place to refute the erroneous belief that Milwaukee was “Bushville” and certainly not ready for major league baseball.
This is truly a remarkable work - -a deft amalgamation of ingenuity and baseball lore -- one that is a must for not only Milwaukee baseball fans but for baseball fans everywhere.