Download or read book Baseball s Biggest Bloopers written by Dan Gutman and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of baseball quotes and bloopers recounts the story of the 1912 dropped fly ball, Bill Buckner's bungling of an easy grounder in the 1986 World Series, and the most famous mistake in baseball history. Some ball players are remembered for their home runs and great plays--but imagine being famous for blowing the game. Offering play-by-play descriptions of the games, historical trivia, and lifetime statistics of key players, this book shows how life goes on even after the worst moments--and how a little mistake can sometimes make a very big difference.
Download or read book Baseball s Biggest Bloopers written by Dan Gutman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases some of baseball's worst moments with true stories of men like Fred Snodgrass, who dropped a fly ball in 1912, and Bill Buckner, who let an easy grounder dribble through his legs to blow the '86 World Series.
Download or read book Baseball Bloopers and Diamond Oddities written by Robert Obojski and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1991-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents true stories of events on and off the baseball field, with sidelights about players, managers, rules, and unusual customs connected with the sport.
Download or read book Top 10 Bloopers in Baseball written by Jamal Hinnant and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will delight in learning about their favorite players laugh-out-loud goofs. Full-page photos capture the bloopers, and easy prose includes fun facts and stats.
Download or read book Baseball Bloopers written by Bill Gutman and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a pitcher throw a no-hitter and lose? How did a twelve-year-old boy help the Yankees win a championship game? Baseball fans young and old will find out in this book of wacky-but-true baseball stories published just in time for the playoffs and World Series.
Download or read book Rob Neyer s Big Book of Baseball Blunders written by Rob Neyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan...but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the bases (and laughing). Without these moments, the highlight reels wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Baseball blunders, however, can be tragic, and they will leave diehard fans asking why...why...why? Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders does its best to answer all those whys, exploring the worst decisions and stupidest moments of managers, general managers, owners, and even commissioners. As he did in his Big Book of Baseball Lineups, Rob Neyer provides readers with a fascinating examination of baseball's rich history, this time through the lens of the game's sometimes hilarious, often depressing, and always perplexing blunders. · Which ill-fated move cost the Chicago White Sox a great hitter and the 1919 World Series? · What was Babe Ruth thinking when he became the first (and still the only) player to end a World Series by getting caught trying to steal? · Did playing one-armed Pete Gray in 1945 cost the Browns a pennant? · How did winning a coin toss lead to the Dodgers losing the National League pennant on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'round the World"? · How damaging was the Frank Robinson-for-Milt Pappas deal, really? · Which of Red Sox manager Don Zimmer's mistakes in 1978 was the worst? · Which Yankees trade was even worse than swapping Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps? · What non-move cost Buck Showalter a job and gave Joe Torre the opportunity of a lifetime? · Game 7, 2003 ALCS: Pedro winds up to throw his 123rd pitch...what were you thinking? These are just a few of the legendary (and not-so-legendary) blunders that Neyer analyzes, always with an eye on what happened, why it happened, and how it changed the fickle course of history. And in separate chapters, Neyer also reviews some of the game's worst trades and draft picks and closely examines all the teams that fell just short of first place. Another in the series of Neyer's Big Books of baseball history, Baseball Blunders should win a place in every devoted fan's library.
Download or read book Baseball Bloopers Diamond Oddities written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Top 10 Bloopers in Baseball written by Jamal Hinnant and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will delight in learning about their favorite players laugh-out-loud goofs. Full-page photos capture the bloopers, and easy prose includes fun facts and stats.
Download or read book Baseball Bloopers Diamond Oddities written by Robert Obojski and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents true stories of events on and off the baseball field, with sidelights about players, managers, rules, and unusual customs connected with the sport.
Download or read book Baseball Bloopers written by Lisa Eisenberg and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991-02-20 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baseball Hall of Shame written by Bruce Nash and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Baseball Bloopers written by Bill Gutman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a pitcher throw a no-hitter and lose? How did a twelve-year-old boy help the Yankees win a championship game? Baseball fans young and old will find out in this book of wacky-but-true baseball stories published just in time for the playoffs and World Series.
Download or read book Baseball Bloopers and Other Curious Incidents written by Robert Obojski and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents true stories of events on and off the baseball field, with sidelights about players, managers, rules, and unusual customs connected with the sport.
Download or read book Extra Innings Baseball written by Paul Adomites and published by Westside Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extra Innings Baseball, from the popular Armchair Digest series, delivers an eye-opening and amusing look at America's pastime. Through hundreds of entertaining anecdotes, incredible stories, memorable moments, witty quotes, and fascinating facts, this lively book pays tribute to baseball's long history and rich traditions. Extra Innings Baseball is like a ticket to the ballpark, with accounts of the most bizarre games and profiles of the greatest and most infamous players. Among many other things, you'll learn all about: • Little League stars who made it big • How eating eels kept Lou Gehrig's Yankees on a winning streak • The most lopsided trades in MLB history • The scrappiest on-field brawls • Baseball's biggest blunders and bloopers • The teams that earned the dubious honor of "worst of all time" If you delight in baseball's colorful stories, it's time to play ball with one of the most entertaining compendiums on the game available.
Download or read book Funny Boy Meets the Dumbbell Dentist from Deimos with Dangerous Dental Decay written by Dan Gutman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny Boy faces his biggest threat yet—a plaque attack! Funny Boy’s super-powered sense of humor has saved the world from airsick aliens, bubble-brained barbers, and a chain of chitchatting cheeses. It’s even won him the love of his life: Tupper Camembert. But this riddle-flinging superhero’s work is far from over. When the president of the United States is summoned for a cleaning with Dr. Denny the dentist, he knows something is wrong—he doesn’t even have an appointment! This is a job for Funny Boy, who must once again use every joke in his arsenal to destroy the evil dentist villain and his hygienist henchmen. But does Funny Boy know enough dentist jokes to save the planet from an invasion of plaque? This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dan Gutman including rare images from the author’s personal collection. Funny Boy Meets the Dumbbell Dentist from Deimos (with Dangerous Dental Decay) is the 4th book in Funny Boy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Funny Boy Takes on the Chit Chatting Cheeses from Chattanooga written by Dan Gutman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When America’s cows go on strike, a gang of interstellar cheeses land on Earth The nation’s cattle have gotten too smart for their own good. Tired of letting humans steal their milk, American cows have gone on strike. This is great news for every kid who hates drinking his milk, but trouble for anybody who likes cheese. Funny Boy—a joke-telling superhero who was sent to Earth from the planet Crouton—is mourning the cheese shortage when five giant cheeses fall on Wisconsin, squashing an unlucky farmer named George Gouda. That alone would be weird enough, but the cheeses also talk. The cheeses are aliens from the faraway planet Chattanooga, and they have come to stop the cheese shortage. The country’s woe is ended, but something about the aliens’ story stinks worse than month-old Muenster. It will take Funny Boy and his galactic sense of humor to curdle these curds before America starts to spoil. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dan Gutman including rare images from the author’s personal collection. Funny Boy Takes on the Chit-Chatting Cheeses from Chattanooga is the 3rd book in Funny Boy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Baseball s Greatest Games written by Dan Gutman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains play-by-play details of nine of the best baseball games ever played.
