Download or read book Baseball s Funnymen written by Lew Freedman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud (or shake their heads in disbelief). The author recounts tales both famous and little known that capture the character of unusual and offbeat players, unique and engaging personalities and the succession of eccentrics who were officially dubbed "Clown Prince of Baseball."
Download or read book 61 Humorous Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Baseball written by Howard Kellman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 61 Humorous & Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Baseball, Howard Kellman takes you on the playing fields and in the clubhouses of professional baseball. Howard has broadcast Triple-A Baseball in Indianapolis for 34 years and brings an insider's perspective. Roger Maris belted a record setting 61 home runs in 1961. Howard wrote 61 Lessons to honor Roger's accomplishment. The Lessons are about Hall of Famers, All-Stars, Minor League players, coaches, managers and umpires. Some Lessons involve tongue-in-cheek humor; many are there to inspire. There are examples of managers and coaches helping players achieve greatness. One Lesson features a Hall of Fame player in a confrontation with a very famous gangster. Another Lesson tells the story of how a dog helped a World Series MVP settle a salary dispute with his team's owner. All of the Lessons involve games that Howard has seen, people he has known and stories he has been told in his years as a baseball broadcaster.
Download or read book Funnyball written by Jimmy Dunn and published by Peter E. Randall Publisher. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy spent the 2004 Red Sox season as the hilarious fan-in-the-stands/sports travel consultant for the New England Sports Network (NESN) pre-game show. He took on towns like Toronto, San Francisco, and New York and let Red Sox Nation know how to travel in style on the road to a championship. A quick read full of cartoons and short, humorous writings.
Download or read book Baseball Is a Funny Game written by Joe Garagiola and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former major-league catcher provides a view of the lighter side of baseball as he relates his professional experience
Download or read book Humor Among the Minors written by Edward Micheal Ashenback and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baseball Humor written by Charles S. Hellman and published by LuckySports. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of Baseball Humor from America's funniest sporting cartoonist.Cartoonist, Robert Tiritilli understands "the balls and strikes" of the baseball world. This former Italian Mafia pinch-hitter has teamed with Charles Hellman, an ex-Little Leaguer, to find more ways to blend these one-panel jokes and cartoons with clever captions. They bring out the "FUNNY" in sports. The wit and satire of these cartoons and their absurdities come to life from Tiritilli's pen. His outrageous graphics poke fun at baseball players, fans and owners with equal gusto. Tiritilli has freelanced and lampooned for more years than he cares to admit. After sailing around the world four times in his tiny ten-foot raft; he now spends his retirement years spraying graffiti on stadium bathroom walls when no one is looking. Baseball Humor Cartoons will be a "home run" with anyone who plays or enjoys baseball, no matter, if they are athletic or just a couch potato. 44 black & white cartoons
Download or read book The Funniest Baseball Book Ever written by Peter Handrinos and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impulse book for Father’s Day, aimed at summer’s most popular sport. That old baseball saying is right: It is a funny game. No other sport can compare to the national pastime's vast catalog of silly quips and quotations, unforgettable characters, memorable nicknames, and inventive pranks. The Funniest Baseball Book Ever captures it all between two covers. It's simply the most complete, contemporary resource for baseball humor. This compendium expertly draws on a century of history and several hundred sources to lend the game a new, hilarious perspective. With over 90 percent of its material never before collected in a single volume, The Funniest Baseball Book Ever will entertain and surprise everyone from casual fans to diehards, and from newcomers to veterans. The Funniest Baseball Book Ever is the perfect antidote for those who'd prefer to laugh along with the fun and games--it's one book that lives up to its title's promise.
Download or read book Baseball Oddities written by Wayne Stewart and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh over baseball's oddest plays and weirdest happenings. Find out about a team that gave up 26 earned runs in a game, 16 in one inning. Or, a player who got the ball stuck in his glove, and threw both to first to beat the runner. Over 100 reasons why baseball is the zaniest sport.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Wits Flakes and Clowns written by Wayne Stewart and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features many of the funniest, flakiest, and most clever men ever associated with baseball. From the hilarious Casey Candaele and the witty Andy Van Slyke to All-Stars Jimmy Piersall and Bryce Harper, this book includes unique, never-before-heard stories, many told directly from author interviews with players and teammates.
Download or read book Three Men on Third written by Harry Allen Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humor Among the Minors True Tales from the Baseball Bush written by Edward Micheal Ashenback and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... on an ambitious youngster. What became of my abusers? Oh! they are engaged in various positions. One is driving a dump-wagon and the others are not much better off. It was just such little acts as this of rewarding persistence with a position that made Ted Sullivan. His success as a promoter stands second to none in baseballdom. The leagues he organized are too numerous to mention, and hundreds of players owe their livelihood to him. In the games Ted would always appear in uniform and coach his men from the lines. His "Texas Steer" club had such a lead for the pennant at Dallas in 1895, that he would very frequently play in the game himself. One day at San Antonio Ted announced that he would pitch. We all looked upon this as a joke, but sure enough into the box went Ted. The San Antonio team fairly ran into themselves getting up to the plate for a shot at Ted's curves, but inning after inning went by with Ted still in the box. Ted and the umpire, who was working behind the pitcher, were fairly bursting with hilarity. "Here comes Bullet-proof Ned," Ted would shout, as a San Antonio batsman would appear at the plate. The batsman would grit his teeth and go out on an easy fly ball. The San Antonio batsmen, in fact, all of us, commenced to wonder how an old chap like Ted could last an entire game. However, Ted's and the umpire's hilarity soon became plain to us, for foxy Ted had sneaked up fully ten feet toward the batsman in the pitcher's box. Pitching from only fifty feet, he was able to keep the sluggers from hitting the ball and he was having a lot of fun out of it. In another game at San Antonio Ted had quite an afternoon with Crazy Schmidt, who was pitching for the Bronchos. Ted was...
Download or read book The Funniest Baseball Stories of the Century written by Scott Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joe E Brown written by Wes D. Gehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and spunk helped his family get through hard times but also fueled his fascination with entertainment, and he built up a repertoire of rubber-faced expressions and funny antics that would make his stage and screen work memorable. Baseball was a favorite pursuit in his life and thus a recurring theme in his films and skits. In this biography--the first on one of the top film comedians of the 1930s--the reader learns of Joe's challenging childhood and how it prepared him for later screen roles, and how his love of baseball translated into screen successes. His early career in vaudeville is discussed, his work as a Broadway comedian in the Roaring Twenties, his road to movie stardom, and how he parlayed his love of sports into big hits like 1930's Elmer the Great. The year 1935 gets its own chapter; its films are considered the pinnacle of Brown's career, including Alibi Ike, Bright Lights and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The final chapters reveal what happened after he left Warner Bros., including the bittersweet 1940s, when he entertained troops around the globe while mourning a son lost to the war. The book concludes with a comprehensive filmography of his features from 1928 to 1963.
Download or read book Low and Inside written by Harry Allen Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Low and Inside" covers baseball's follies and freaks from the sports origins in the mists of the 19th century until about 1915. "A fascinating and hilarious collection. It is something that should be sandwiched between Marcel Proust and "forever Amber" on every bookshelf!"
Download or read book The Baseball Hall of Shame 2 written by Bruce M. Nash and published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment. This book was released on 1991 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embarrassing, funny, and shameful moments in the world of baseball.
Download or read book It s Anybody s Ballgame written by Joe Garagiola and published by . This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiced with never-before-told stories about some of the greatest names in baseball, this long-awaited book, by baseball's most outrageously funny entertainer, is sure to delight every fan across the nation.
