JAMES C. VANCE

“Baseball was mighty glamorous and exciting to me,” he remembered, “but there is no use in blinking at the fact that at that time the game was thought, by solid, respectable people, to be only one degree above grand larceny, arson and mayhem, and those who engaged in it were beneath the notice of decent society.”
― Edward Achorn, Fifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had

“didn’t find a girl—not that I looked very hard—but I did find a speakeasy on Beaubien Street, near the waterfront.”
― Troy Soos, Hanging Curve: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery

“Athletics had, indeed, arrived! “It was time to cheer, and cheer they did.”
― Edward Achorn, The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game

“It’s gonna be locked.” He fished in his pocket and handed me a key. “If things blow up, you swiped this from me. Got it?” “Got it. Thanks.”
― Troy Soos, Hunting a Detroit Tiger: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery