Author: Bruce M. Nash
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780671753559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An all-new, rib-tickling collection of the daffiest fielders, silliest batters, and wildest pitchers in baseball. Includes the Cleveland Indians player who struck out without ever stepping foot in the batter's box, the Washington Senators player who lost a ground ball--in his pants, and more. Photographs.
Author: Bruce Nash
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0762784008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From 1985 to 1992, The Baseball Hall of Shame series chronicled more than 100 years of baseball goofs and gaffes, selling more than 700,000 copies. Now, the authors of the most offbeat baseball books ever written are back, featuring their looniest lineup of classic stories and inducting their first new class of Hall of Shamers in twenty years. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo cover everything from the battiest batters and craziest fielding fiascoes to the dumbest ballpark promotions and screwiest fan behavior. Hall of Shamers include outfielder Lou "The Mad Russian" Novikoff, who insisted his wife taunt him from the stands because it made him a better hitter... Pitcher Burleigh Grimes, who was so mean that he threw a beanball at the on-deck hitter... Outfielder Ping Bodie, who out-ate Percy the ostrich for the spaghetti-eating championship of the world... and Babe Ruth, who wore ladies' silk stockings for good luck. Among the new inductees are Ken Griffey Jr., who put a cow in manager Lou Piniella's office to pay off a steak dinner bet... Manny Ramirez, who abandoned left field to go to the bathroom during a game... and David "Big Papi" Ortiz, whose underwear was smeared with peanut butter as payback for the pranks he pulled on teammates. Filled with more than 200 stories and packed with photos, The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown is the most hilarious homage to the national pastime ever assembled, and a fitting testament to the Hall's motto: "Fame and shame are part of the game."
Author: Bruce M. Nash
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780671693541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baseball blunders by players, managers, umpires, & even groundskeepers are reported on.
Author: Bruce Nash
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1991-05
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 067174609X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Baseball Hall of Shame 4 contains more than 100 absurd, offbeat and hysterically funny stories proving that on the playing field and in the ballpark, truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-06-13
Total Pages: 1001
ISBN-13: 0393073491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Author: Myron J. Smith
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"With over 57,000 entries, this two-volume set is the most comprehensive non-electronic, non-database, print bibliography on any American sport. Represented here are books and monographs, scholarly papers, government documents, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, poetry and fiction, novels, pro team yearbooks, college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs, commercially produced yearbooks, and periodical and journal articles"--Provided by publisher.