The Grip: The 1918 Pandemic and a City Under Siege
Shawn Driscoll, a doctoral research fellow at UMASS Lowell, recently reached out to our store to sell his book (co-authored/edited with Linda Hixon, Christian Farren, and Theodore Racicot) about the 1918 Pandemic and its effects in our very own Worcester, MA. There was something surreal about being sold a book about a pandemic in Worcester […]
War Fever by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
In timely fashion, authors Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith investigate baseball, war culture, and the pandemic of 1918 in Boston during the late stages of World War I. This book uses three characters as the driving force of time in their work: an ascendant Babe Ruth, at the time on the Boston Red Sox, Karl […]