Baseball Hall of Shame™
The Best of Blooperstown
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
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."
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In the first and second volumes of this series, Nash and Zullo presented most of the best-known blunders and bloopers in baseball history; in this title they recount lesser-known incidents, many of which are either silly and fun or verge on the bizarre but are nonetheless fodder for any baseball fan. In "Playoff Lovers,'' the authors quote interviews with fans and journalists in attendance who swear they saw a couple making love on the crowded field in the pandemonium following New York Giant Bobby Thomson's 1951 playoff home run against the Dodgers. Boston Red Sox manager Eddie Kasko is ``inducted'' into the Hall of Shame for having faked a faint in protest of an umpire's call in 1972. (He was immediately thrown out of the game.) In ``Bullpen Bozos,'' the authors recount the time that former Dodger reliever Ron Perranoski squirted a water pistol at a boy who asked for an autograph. Pepper Martin is honored for the 1938 game in which he threw the ball at the heads of each of the opposing team's runners who hit the ball to him at third base. Recommended for spring training.
