Daniel Okrent,Steve Wulf

Baseball Anecdotes

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From its winners to its sinners, two bestselling sportswriters chronicle a dizzying trip through more than a century of baseball lore and legend.
Some of the stories are celebrated—from Ruth’s called shot to DiMaggio’s streak to Mays’s catch. Some of the men are titans of the game—Mantle, Williams, Koufax. But alongside those stories passed from generation to generation, Daniel Okrent and Steve Wulf have assembled tales both hard-to-believe and a pleasure to read. From the Black Sox scandal to Bill Veeck’s bizarre promotions, from its icons and iconoclasts, from the humble origins of the game to the landmark moments that made it the national pastime, Baseball Anecdotes reveals the enthralling (and often amusing) game that goes on both on the field and behind the scenes of baseball.
“A dandy introduction to the game.” —Newsweek
“A must . . . Its greatest value might be to those of us who want to pass along baseball lore to our children.” —San Jose Mercury News
“Beguiling . . . A history of the game in stories . . . Comic, tragic, controversial.” —The New York Times Book Review
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407 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • Taya Zininahas quoted7 years ago
    Browning watched as Hillerich selected a block of white ash and molded it on a lathe to Pete’s specifications. The next day Browning went three-for-three, and soon the Hillerich family was out of the butter churn business.
  • Taya Zininahas quoted7 years ago
    I can’t hit the ball until I hit the bottle.”
  • Taya Zininahas quoted7 years ago
    Among his routines, he would wind up like a pitcher and slam a fist into his other hand to demonstrate a “fastball to the devil.” And to illustrate a sinner coming home for salvation, Sunday would slide headfirst on the stage and grope with his hand for home plate.

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