Following the Baseball Hall of Shame 1 by a year, this collection of anecdotes includes such embarrassments as Johnny Bench taking a third strike in the 1972 World Series when he had been expecting an intentional walk and Ron LeFlore being picked off second while reading the electronic scoreboard. Other chapters focus on forgotten players (Bill Pettit, the $100,000 bonus baby who won one game for the Pirates), Hall of Famers (Stan Musial losing a ball in the sun and getting hit in the head by it); owners, umpires and even fans (the Kessler brothers forcing the Philadelphia Athletics to trade Jimmy Dykes, who was taunted from the stands so constantly he couldn't play). This book makes the hard-core baseball fan ever more eager for spring.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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THE HALLOWED HALL OF HITLESS WONDERS! THE IMMORTAL SHRINE OF SORE-LOSERS,
CHEAP-SKATE OWNERS, AND ROWDY FANS!
Everyone knows about baseball's greatest hitters and fielders, about the iron men of the game. But, for the first time, here are baseball's loveable losers, the immortal boneheads of the game. Thousands of fans, players, broadcasters and sportswriters have contributed anecdotes about the flakes, the buffoons and all-around crummy guys who make baseball America's national sport. Here are:
- The St. Louis Browns and the Chicago White Stockings committing 102 errors in a World Series
- Norm Cash swinging his way to a batting title with an illegal bat
- Ross "Skuz" Grimsley, who went weeks without changing his sweatshirt
- N.Y. Giant owner Andrew Freedman, beating up other owners, umpires, fans -- even his own players!
- And many more, including Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Whitey Ford, Joe Medwick, and of course, the famous traitor Walter O'Malley!
The worst plays! The dumbest trades! The most outrageous defeats! They're all enshrined in...The Baseball Hall Of Shame!™
