James E. Elfers
Autore di The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour
Sull'Autore
James E. Elfers is a library analyst at the University of Delaware.
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Via impressive research, Elfers resolutely brushes the cobwebs off this musty chapter of baseball history and breathes some life into it with colorful details, quotes and anecdotes of the tourists’ exploits on and off the field. While the book occasionally gets bogged down in the tedium of game recaps and the minutiae of various banquets and receptions, The Tour to End All Tours ultimately serves as an interesting travelogue of a bygone era and an engaging look at a unique story from baseball’s deadball era.… (altro)