From its winners to its sinners, two bestselling sportswriters chronicle a dizzying trip through more than a century of baseball lore and legend.
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Some of the stories are celebratedโfrom Ruthโs called shot to DiMaggioโs streak to Maysโs catch. Some of the men are titans of the gameโMantle, 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 Veeckโs 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.
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โA dandy introduction to the game.โ โNewsweek
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โA mustย .ย .ย . Its greatest value might be to those of us who want to pass along baseball lore to our children.โ โSan Jose Mercury News
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โBeguilingย .ย .ย . A history of the game in storiesย .ย .ย . Comic, tragic, controversial.โ โThe New York Times Book Review