The New Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball the Classic Book on How Baseball Really Works-Expanded, Updated and Revised for the Game of the Nineties

Leonard Koppett

ISBN 10: 0671732056 / ISBN 13: 9780671732059

Published by Fireside, 1991

About this Item

Twenty-five years ago, Leonard Koppett, the Dean of American Sportswriters, wrote his classic account of baseball, and turned the game inside out for fans. The changes in the game and the power relationships that govern it, demanded a new revised edition. Has 380 pages and is in very good- condition. I have hundreds of books by and about sportswriters and the history of baseball in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1535898981031

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball the Classic Book on How Baseball Really Works-Expanded, Updated and Revised for the Game of the Nineties
• Publisher: Fireside
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671732056
• ISBN 13: 9780671732059
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • sportswriters
  • team history

About this title

Synopsis

Explains the ins and outs of baseball, from the game on the field to behind-the-scenes topics such as the media, scouts, and spring training

From Publishers Weekly

An updated, rewritten version of the 1967 baseball classic, A Thinking Man's Guide to Baseball , this book by New York Times national edition columnist Koppett delivers what its title promises: a challenging, thoughtful discourse on a sport that, for the true fan, cannot be overanalyzed. Drawing on his decades of baseball reporting (since the days the Dodgers and Giants called New York home) and countless interviews with players, managers and others, the author addresses all facets of the game--from elements of play on the field to "behind the scenes" subjects, including, significantly, lawyers and agents. Often, the less obvious topics are most compelling, such as the chapter on signs and his argument that managers "who have great effect on any given game are the exceptional ones."p. 113 In a typical fascinating observation, he points out that the average playing field has 90,000 square feet of fair territory. Throughout Koppett provides historical perspective and shows that the "changeless" game has always changed and continues to change. Reading this is the fan's equivalent of players' spring training.
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