Baseball Oddities Bizarre Plays & Other Funny Stuff,9780806918952

Baseball Oddities Bizarre Plays & Other Funny Stuff

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ISBN13: 9780806918952
ISBN10: 0806918950
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-03-30
Publisher(s): Sterling
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Summary

Laugh over baseball's oddest plays and weirdest happenings. Find out about a team that gave up 26 earned runs in a game, 16 in one inning. Or, a player who got the ball stuck in his glove, and threw both to first to beat the runner. Over 100 reasons why baseball is the zaniest sport.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6(7)
Baseball in the 1990s: Still Humor in the Game
7(9)
Odd Baseball Plays
16(12)
Quotes of the Game
28(8)
Baseball's Odd Humor
36(9)
Gallows Humor
45(11)
Odd Trick Plays
56(8)
A World of Irony and Coincidence
64(14)
Revisiting the 1990s
78(16)
About the Author 94(1)
Index 95

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