Bibliographic record
Abstract
Edward Achorn. Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game. Philadelphia: Public Affairs, 2013. 291 pp. Paper, $26.99. Ron Kates As author Edward Achorn notes in his preface, American Association's summer of1883 ... marvelously opens window, as baseball always does, into the culture of America of its time--the harsh struggle, the cruel and mocking racism, the heavy drinking, and the triumphant, glorious spirit of individual achievement of the (xiii). Focusing primarily on two teams, the St. Louis Brown Stockings and Philadelphia Athletics, Achorn offers readers panoramic perspective of the season while also taking time to profile select stars from both teams. Along the way, aided by illustrations drawn by Cincinnati Reds first baseman Long John Reilly, as well as anecdotes and descriptions provided by contemporary reporters and players, the reader is transported back to year America went baseball mad (xiii), time when the competition between the established and highbrow National League and the freewheeling American Association resulted in far-reaching ramifications. While Achorn profiles Hall of Famers (Charlie Comiskey, Tim Keefe, and Cap Anson), should-be Hall of Famers (Pete Browning, Bobby Mathews, and Tony Mullane), and other period characters (including Arlie Latham, the Freshest Man on Earth, [63] and The Only Nolan), he spends significant portions of the book focusing on Brown Stockings owner--and St. Louis beer magnate--Chris Von der Ahe. Achorn praises Von der Ahe's vision of making day at the ballpark more exciting experience than ever before, with cheap tickets, booming beer sales, and big crowds adorned by beautiful women (12), as well as his scheduling Sunday games as means to welcome working men and fellow immigrants, those who toiled all week and could not break free from their jobs to attend game (13). Achorn describes how Von der Ahe displays both Veeckian innovative spirit alongside Steinbrenner-esque combativeness--unafraid to challenge the status quo concerning Sunday baseball and ballpark beer sales. Brown Stockings owner's propensity to interfere with the on-field activities of his manager and players only intensified as the Association's pennant race continued into September. In similar, albeit unequal fashion, Achorn also portrays Von der Ahe's Philadelphia counterpart, renowned minstrel actor and former ballplayer Lew Simmons, whose dedication to his team borders on obsession. Much of the book's on-field descriptions center on the four the Brown Stockings and Athletics played throughout the American Association's 1883 season. Incredibly, as Achorn notes, the penultimate series--and the last one hosted in Philadelphia--drew a stunning 50,000 [spectators] for the series (191), remarkable figure given the size of the ballparks, the limited spectator base, and the relative newness of the game. Indeed, more than few modern teams would be pleased with similar draw over the course of weekend series. In this Achorn introduces readers to Jumping Jack Jones, the Yale pitcher whose motion involved him leap[ing] into the air as he released the ball, flinging his arms and legs out in manner that reminded reporters of child's jumping jack (187). …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.068 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".