The Hot Stove League (Classics) - Softcover

Allen, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892129442 ISBN 13: 9781892129444

Publisher: Total/Sports Illustrated, 2000

Synopsis

Before the modern era, the closest fans could get to big-league action during the long winters was sitting around the hot stove in general stores and barber shops, exchanging bits of baseball history and anecdotes from the uplifting to the unseemly. These fascinating true stories are collected in The Hot Stove League, and they chronicle everything from the first electrically illuminated night game and Babe Ruth's legendary gluttony to such curiosities as why some of the most populous states produce the fewest major league players.

About this title

From Library Journal:

This 1955 volume can be likened to campfire tales for baseball nuts. It is essentially a collection of stories about the game that might be told in the winter when the last season was just a memory and the upcoming one the stuff of dreams. Diehard baseball fans just never get enough, so this should circulate well.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Total/Sports Illustrated
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1892129442
• ISBN 13: 9781892129444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224