Crazy 08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Cait Murphy -WH) hancock One Civil War soldier’s views

One Civil War soldier’s views of life

Winner of the 2001 The Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement A History Book Club Selection The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usually told as a tale of a lone deranged actor who struck from a twisted lust for revenge

Lamon is away on a mission when Lincoln is killed

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Crazy 08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Cait Murphy -WH) hancock One Civil War soldier’s viewsFrom the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifestthese days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one would have laughed: The Cubs were, without doubt, baseball's greatest teamthe first dynasty of the 20th century. Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 seasonthe year when Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went toe to toe to toe with John McGraw and Christy