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Overview
•Joe DiMaggio committed a case of outfield robbery against Hank Greenberg
•A spectator made a pitching change for the Dodgers
•Reggie Jackson earned the nickname “Mister October”
•One-armed Pete Gray plays center field for the St. Louis Browns
•Don Larsen pitched a perfect game against the Dodgers in the World Series
•Gregg Maddux won the Cy Young Award four times in a row
So get ready to take the field with some of baseball’s greatest—and most hilarious—players and coaches alike!
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781613216880 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Sports Publishing LLC |
| Publication date: | 06/03/2014 |
| Sold by: | SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 256 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
| Age Range: | 12 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction (Or why I wrote this Book) xiii
Acknowledgments xxi
I Baseball History
1 The Most Incredible Relief Job in History 2
2 Feller's Bid for a Win Felled in a Strange Way 3
3 Four Home Runs the Odd Way 4
4 Willie Mays' Incredible Catch Hijacks a Series 5
5 A Perfect Case of Pitching Larceny by Don Larsen 7
6 One Manager Comes, One Manager Goes in a Deal 9
7 A Double Play Combination is Immortalized in Poetry 10
8 Incredibly, a Pitcher Produced A 2.60 Earned Run Average but Finished the Season With Nothing Better than A 500 Record 11
9 Overcoming an Eight-Run Deficit in the Seventh Inning of a World Series Game to Win the Contest 13
10 Who won the 1945 All-Star Game? 15
11 Why Did Three Crucial Players in the 1947 World Series Never Play Another Big League Game? 16
12 The Brother Act That Won Forty-Five Games in One Season 18
13 Nolan Ryan's Record Seven No-Hitters 19
14 The World Series That Had Fans Evenly Divided 21
15 Baseball Billboards as Famous as the Ballparks 22
16 The Fastest Building of a Baseball Cathedral 24
17 How the Best Baseball Center in the World Became a Ghost Diamond 26
18 The Baseball War to End All Wars 28
19 The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals-Greatest Team Ever? 32
20 Worst Booing of a President at a Baseball Game 38
II Fascinating Characters
21 Babe Ruth as Pitching Star and Car-Battering Ace 42
22 The Most Incredible World Series Alibi 43
23 A Yankees Batboy Was Fired for Almost Ruling Babe Ruth-and Later Became a Film Star 44
24 Double Duty was his Name; Catching and Pitching in a Doubleheader was his Claim to Fame 46
25 Two Brothers Who Amassed an Astonishing Win Total 47
26 The Best Put-Down of an American President by a Baseball Star 49
27 From Prison to the Majors-Thanks to Billy Martin 50
28 The Incredible Story of a Teenage Vendor Who Later Returned to the Same Field as a Big League Player 52
29 Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris as Movie Stars-It Happened in Hollywood 53
30 Rookie Managers are not Supposed to be Pennant-and World Series-Winners Right Off The Bat 54
31 A Batter Who Struck Out on Only Two Strikes 56
32 Almost Given Up for Dead in World War II, Lou Brissie Returned to Pitch in the Majors 57
33 Six Managers in Four Years-Only Steinbrenner Could Do It 60
34 The Improbable Comeback in the Summer of 1978 62
35 From Third-String Catcher to First-String Spy 64
36 Stan Musial Shows Why He Is "The Man" 67
37 From Mister Anonymity to All-Time Hero 69
38 The Evangelist Who Doubled as a Baseball Star 71
39 Was This The All-Time Baseball Bonehead Play? 73
40 Barney Kremenko's Mistaken Signals 79
41 Incredible Feats by Baseball Players in World War II 82
42 From Hockey Goalie to Baseball Manager 84
43 The Dazzy who Got Them Dizzy 87
44 The Redhead Who Turned Baseball Broadcasting Into an Art Form 90
45 A Baseball Publisher Who Affected More Fans and Servicemen Than Anyone in the Literary Business 92
46 The Most Incrédible Baseball Nickname Collection 95
III Unlikely Heroes
47 One Hand, No Hits-How Can That Happen? 98
48 Somebody Actually Out-Babed the Great Ruth [Roger Maris 1961] 101
49 The Forgotten Pitcher Who Befuddled the Babe 103
50 The Most Incredible Hitter of Foul Balls 104
51 A One-Armed Outfielder in the Majors? Incredible, But True 106
52 It Took a Pair of Pitchers to Stop Joe Dimaggio's Consecutive Game Streak at Fifty-Six 108
53 In 1959, Why Did Los Angeles Baseball Fans Honor a Man They had Never Seen Play for or Against Thee California Team? 110
54 The Other Ole Reliable 112
55 When Nineteen Years of Greatness May Not Qualify for the Hall of Fame 118
56 The Most Curious Home Run Ever Belted 118
57 Bill Veeck's Stunt to End All Stunts-Signing and then Playing a Midget 120
58 The Jewish Slugger Who Got a Nickname Like Babe Ruth 136
IV Incredible Feats
59 A Remarkable Pun That Only Frenchy Could Utter 130
60 An Incredibly Corny Conviction 132
61 How Yogi Became a Stand-Up Comic 134
62 How to Squelch an Umpire-and Get Away with It 136
63 The Greatest Season by a Modern Day Pitcher [Pedro Martinez] 137
64 The Most Sensational Game Ever Pitched [Sandy Koufax] 139
65 You're Never Too Old to Bat.388 [Ted Williams, Age 38] 141
66 The Most Incredible World Series Game Featuring a Triple Play 144
67 Dick Groat-Will It Be Basketball or Baseball? 146
68 The All-Time Utility Player, Martin Dihigo 141
69 The Longest Home Run Out of Yankee Stadium 149
10 Juan Marichal vs. Warren Spahn-Duel of the Titans 151
71 Bob Gibson's Fabulous 1968 Season 155
72 A Goose Egg Trifecta Forgotten By Many 157
73 Short Hits-for Nine Men in the Field, Nine Short Tails of Incredulity 158
A Rickey Henderson Breaks Lou Brock's Stolen Base Record (1991)
B Jack Morris Throws Ten Shutout Innings in World Series Game Seven (1991)
C Joe Carter's Walk-Off World Series Home Ran (1993)
D Cal Ripken Passes Lou Gehrig (1995)
E Baseball Returns To New York After 9/11 (2001)
F Luis Gonzalez Delivers World Series Title to the Desert (2001)
G Derek Jeter's Flip (2001)
H Hall of Famers Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb's Shared Idol
I Roy Halladay's NLDS No-Hitter (2010)
74 The Catcher Who Cost the Phillies $10,000 for Running Too Fast 163
V Outrageous
75 An Incredible Case of Fan Devotion 166
76 The Remarkable Bird in Casey's Hat 167
77 Benched Because of Spelling Problems 169
78 How a Bleachers Spectator Changed Pitchers for the Dodgers 170
79 Three Men on Third-How Can That Happen? 173
80 The Amazing Aerial Baseball-Grapefruit Trick 175
81 The Most Incredible Start to a Pitching Season 177
82 Writing Baseball's Bobby Thomson into a Non-Baseball Movie Script 178
83 How Legendary African American Catcher Josh Gibson Turned a Home Run into a Double 179
84 How an Incredibly Dissonant Musical Group Had the Longest-Running Record at a Ballpark 181
85 Game Called on Account of-Get This!-A Hurricane 183
86 Which Team was Responsible for Baseball's Longest Winning Streak, Yet Finished Fourth? 184
87 Unbelievably, Three Major League Teams Opposed Each Other in the Same Game 187
88 The Extraordinary Circumstances That Forced a Manager to Pull His Acclaimed Outfielder in the Middle of Game Seven of the World Series 188
89 Why Did a Game-Winning Grand Slam in the Bottom of the Ninth Get Called Back? 190
90 An Incredible Murder Because Of Baseball Passion 192
91 A World Series-Winning Team with an Arresting Collection of Nicknames and Two Coopers 194
92 Three-For-Three, The Reggie Jackson Way 195
93 Harvey Haddix's Imperfect Perfect Game 198
94 Skeptics Beware-A Double No-Hitter 202
95 Take Me Out to the Brawl Game-At the Copa 203
96 The Greatest Base-Brawl Rivalry 205
97 The Series Where Two Managerial Wives Needed an Apartment 210
98 How to Lose a World Series-Six Blunders on One Play, Plus Bad Luck on Another 212
99 Five Straight Hall of Famers Struck Out-How Did He Do It? 214
100 How Can Anyone Replace The Babe? Well, Twinkletoes Did 216
101 The Hobbled Star Carries a Team 218
Epilogue 221
Bibliography 223