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'The Funniest Baseball Book Ever' is a comprehensive resource for the National Pastime's humor legacy, and over 90% of its material has never been collected into a single volume. It includes:

-Over 1,300 quotations related to more than 370 baseball-related topics.

-The inside stories and commentaries on over 260 player nicknames, starting with ‘Hammerin’’ Hank Aaron and ending with Joel ‘Zoom’ Zumaya.
-Full descriptions of the 20 greatest pranks in Pastime history, from the truly infamous to the virtually unknown.

-Profiles of the game’s most unforgettable figures, including superstar Manny Ramirez (‘The Eccentric’), broadcaster Ralph Kiner (‘The Flubber’), and manager Casey Stengel (‘The Genius’).

-Material drawn from over 700 sources- from athletes to executives, from broadcasters to comedians, from commentators to fans. The oldest bits are from a century ago, the most recent from last year.


‘The Funniest Baseball Book Ever’ also:

-Provides the most insightful, hilarious baseball quotation resource ever, with all you need to know on topics ranging from ‘aging’, ‘alibis’, and ‘attendance’ to ‘winning’, ‘wisdom’ and ‘wives’.

-Reveals how players like The Big Cat, The Bird, The Hawk, The Monster, The Penguin, and The Vulture earned their nicknames.

-Recounts the pranks involving a six-foot ‘Crab’, a rain delay slip-‘n-slide, a hidden sparrow, the greatest player baseball’s never seen, and the grapefruit that fell out of the sky.

-Provides the insider profiles behind the game’s foremost eccentric, leader, trickster, showman, rebel, prankster, and more.

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Posted 10/18/2009 @ 12:55 AM | Talking Points