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Baseball Anecdotes RI Paperback – March 9, 1993

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A lavish feast of baseball facts and legends from the earlier organized games through the present day.
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  1. Print length
    368 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    William Morrow Paperbacks
  4. Publication date
    March 9, 1993
  5. Dimensions
    5.31 x 0.83 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0062732064
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0062732064
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"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." -- -- New York Times Book Review

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A lavish feast of baseball facts and legends from the earlier organized games through the present day.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks (March 9, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062732064
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062732064
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.83 x 8 inches

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Daniel Okrent

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Daniel Okrent was the first public editor of The New York Times, editor-at-large of Time, Inc., and managing editor of Life magazine. Among his books, "Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center" was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history, and "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" was honored by the American Historical Association as 2011's best book of American history. Okrent lives in Manhattan and on Cape Cod with his wife, poet Rebecca Okrent.

Learn more at danielokrent.com.

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Randolph Rossi
5.0 out of 5 stars Many Funny and Odd Occurrences in the Game of Baseball
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024
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I greatly enjoyed this book with the occurrences of the improbable, the impossible and the totally absurd in baseball. Amazingly, the book recounts a game that I was at, in which Steve Carlton of the Phillies stuck out 16 Mets and allowed 5 hits but lost 4 to 3 because Ron Swoboda hit two two-run homers
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Fred W. Anson (aka "12th Fret" Anson)
4.0 out of 5 stars The PBS Series Without Photos
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 1998
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For those of us who love the history of baseball as much as the game itself, this is a, "must get".

I found all the anecdotes from the PBS Ken Burns documentary "Baseball" here plus a bunch that didn't make it. (You may recall, that Daniel Okrent was heavily featured in the PBS series)

The only missing element that would cause me to bump my ratings to 5 stars would be(you guessed it) photos.

With the unearthing of Charles Conlon's negatives they would have a trove of other 18,000 images to choose from - most of which have yet to be published in this half of the century. (Only a fraction of these incredible images made it into the Abram's book, "The Golden Age of Baseball")

Of course, this would drive the cost of the book up and possibly detract from the wonderful stories here - I wonder out loud if it isn't perfect just the way it is...

Never the less, you will be all the poorer if this book in not in your baseball library, photos or not!
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Mari
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and fascinating!
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
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My husband is a huge baseball fan so this is the perfect gift for him! Great stories and hard to put this book down. Fabulous!!!
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Houston Retiree
5.0 out of 5 stars the book is an easy read because no topic is more than about 2 ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016
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For anyone wanting to know quite a bit about baseball, from the earliest beginnings through 1990 (when the book was published), this is the book for you. In addition to including many anecdotes, the book is an easy read because no topic is more than about 2 pages long. A great book if you want to read a few minutes before going to bed, in a doctor's office, or any other place when you do not have a lot of time to read. I heartily recommend the book for anyone interested in baseball lore.
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Judith Barden
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a great pick-up book.🙂
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2022
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When I want a quick read, this is fun to go to.🤗
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rivercity
3.0 out of 5 stars More of a history chronology
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
Actually, as a baseball history buff, I was already familiar with much of this. Not really my cup of tea. Certainly it took much effort to compile such a volume. (I had actually read a Steve Wulf article and liked his style - but that is not dominant feature in this.) There is an emphasis on crudeness of players characters imo.
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