The Quotable Baseball Fanatic

Rubin Jr., Louis

ISBN 10: 1402714254 / ISBN 13: 9781402714252

Published by Main Street Pr, 2004

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00070719210

Synopsis:

Players, writers, and fans share their wisdom in this rich compilation of insights, witticisms, and anecdotes about America's national sport. The contributors include such greats as Henry Aaron (“The pitcher only had a ball, I had a bat”), Casey Stengel (“I been in the game a hundred years, but I see new ways to lose I never knew existed before”), and of course, the inimitable Yogi Berra (“It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays”). It's a great gift for baseball fans everywhere.

Review: Leave it to that eminent philosopher Yogi Berra to put the national pastime in perspective: "It ain't like football," he once noted. "You can't make up no trick plays." Maybe it's just that physical straightforwardness that has led to so much written and verbal razzle-dazzle on the game. Yogi's is just one of the many stellar observations collected in The Quotable Baseball Fanatic. Some, like Babe Ruth's poignant reaction to the Black Sox scandal--"It was like hearing that my church had sold out"--are right over the heart of the matter; others, like Reggie Jackson's "I represent the underdog and overdog in our society," are straight out of left field. Given baseball's hold on our imagination, both lines are perfectly fair, as the host of familiar and not-so-familiar quotations that wind up landing safely in between. --Jeff Silverman

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Quotable Baseball Fanatic
Publisher: Main Street Pr
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good