The Germans are back in the second edition of Beer, Brats, and Baseball: German-Americans in St. Louis, with more oom-pah-pah, gemütlichkeit, and prosit than ever. In the first edition, author Jim Merkel told how Germans saved the city for the Union, brewed the beer, ran the baseball team, and helped make St. Louis place like nowhere else. The second edition adds new stories to the first. Here is the tale of the German immigrant restaurant owner who went home before World War II because people suspected him of being a Nazi sympathizer. Here too is the story of the local craft brewer who bought a German brewery so St. Louisans could drink the most authentic European beer available. And herein music lovers will learn about a musical society struggling to keep alive the Teutonic melodies its members sang in the 1870s and a local band that plays the latest tunes on German radio. In short, if it's German and it happened in St. Louis, it's in Beer, Brats, and Baseball. Book jacket.