The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia

Author Robert Schnakenberg takes you through a decidedly snarky trip through the game's rich history of buffoonery, thuggery, fashion missteps, ballpark promotions gone awry, batboys with metals claws for hands, afros, mustaches, mistreses, overzealous mascots, existence-of-dinosaurs deniers, indelible baseball-themed candy bars, and hundreds of other unbelievable-but-true aspects of America's national pastime. And did we mention the wife swapping?