Cait Murphy - Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History Reviews

Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy

Okay, I admit it, I don't have a punch line for that one. Cait Murphy's book, Crazy '08, will keep you entertained and then some though. Yes, it centers on the turbulent and see saw baseball season of 1908, but it gives you so much more. The early 1900's weren't just baseball's coming of age, it was also when America was coming of age as well.

Think about it, in 1908 ......
*Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
*There was no radio, at least not in the sense that you could listen to ballgames
*The first year that the ball was dropped from Times Square, signaling...