The Answer Is Baseball: A Book of Questions That Illuminate the Great Game

Salisbury, Luke

ISBN 10: 067972642X / ISBN 13: 9780679726425

Published by Vintage Books, New York, New York, 1990

About this Item

Very Good condition. Minor foxing on the edge of the text block.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 18384

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Answer Is Baseball: A Book of Questions That Illuminate the Great Game
• Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067972642X
• ISBN 13: 9780679726425
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Uses trivia questions to examine various aspects of baseball history and reveal interesting information concerning famous players, managers, records and rivalries

From Library Journal

Three offbeat books help open the 1989 season. Trivia expert Salisbury's intriguing questions tease fans before he gives answers about pitching, batting, rookies, streaks, and other records. Meanwhile, he weaves in diamond history, baseball cards, baseball families, and the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry. His book is a challenging test and happy browsing. Okrent (co-editor of The Ultimate Baseball Book, LJ 11/15/79) and Sports Illustrated editor Wulf step in with humorous tales--new and time honored. They carry their readers from baseball's birth--not attended by Doubleday--to the 1986 Series in accounts that are happy fuel for the Hot Stove League. In Oddballs TV writer Shlain engagingly portrays the pranksters (e.g., Roger McDowell) eaters, and drinkers (Ruth, Boog Powell et al . ), along with assorted showoffs, hotheads, stuntmen, and even eggheads. His close-up portraits of Ted Williams, Pete Rose, Oil Can Boyd, and Bill Lee are winning touches. The best of these three is Salisbury's, while the others rate consideration.
- Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
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