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Ichiro, Satchel, and the Babe: More Baseball's, Fun Facts and Serious Trivia
Can you name the only player to win MVP honors during the 1930s and not gain entry into the Hall of Fame? How about the Yankees infielder whose harmonic playing caused manager Yogi Berra to erupt in anger on the team bus, en route to the 1964 AL Pennant?
You'll find the answers in Ichiro, Satchel, and the Babe: More Baseball's, Fun Facts and Serious Trivia, by Mike Attiyeh. In this follow up to Who Was Traded for Lefty Grove?, you'll also find over 600 more challenging trivia questions and fascinating facts (did you know the Padres hosted the first major league games in Mexico and Hawaii?), spanning the entire history of the sport.
Did you know Ernie Banks is a cousin of NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson (page 116)? Did you know Eddie Collins is the only player to hit over .400 during three different World Series (page 123)? Did you know former major leaguer Nigel Wilson became the fourth (and last) player to hit four home runs in a Japanese League game (page 170)? Three hundred plus pages of "did you knows" make Ichiro, Satchel and the Babe the single best trivia book to hit the baseball book shelf in years! |
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"Challenging, entertaining, stimulating, and deliciously thorough, the book spans the entire history of the sport, from the game's early years all the way through the record-breaking 2002 season. Some of the questions are tough ones, requiring deduction, reason, and a big-picture knowledge of the game, but Attiyeh's often-surprising answers inevitably leave the reader fully informed and satisfied." - President of Legends of Sports Nic Antoine
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Momentous events mix with obscure but telling human incidents; the course of the great pennant races and World Series championships is touched with the reverie of timeless, long-ago summer afternoons.
A chronological text is studded with boxed features highlighting special events, milestones, championship lists, and brief essays, comments, and reminiscences by baseball greats and other notables from Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto to Pete Hamill and Bob Costas.
Stunning illustrations include both classic images and rare, unpublished photographs. Yankee Stadium, in the tradition of Lost Ballparks, eclipses the uncertainty of the future with the glories of the past in a gift book baseball fans will treasure forever.
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Since its opening in 1923, the stadium has been storied ground. The Yankees became a dynasty there. Tunney, Louis, Marciano, and Ali all fought for the heavyweight title there. Two of the greatest games in football history; the Army-Notre Dame scoreless tie of 1946 and the Sudden Death victory of the Colts over the Giants for the 1958 NFL Championship, chewed up the grass there. Pele scored goals there, two Popes offered mass there, Nelson Mandela was adored there, and Billy Joel, U2, and Pink Floyd all rocked the House that Ruth Built there.
If ever a ballpark deserved to be venerated, it's this particular green patch of the South Bronx, and its 75th anniversary is duly noted and celebrated in this richly illustrated appreciation of the park, the players, the events, and the team that gave the place its hallowed name.
It's an evocative volume. Interspersed throughout its historical text are lovely observations and reminiscences from such luminaries (on and off the field) as poet Marianne Moore, novelist James T. Farrell, violinist Itzhak Perlman, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, comic Billy Crystal, Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Mickey Mantle. It features stunning archival photos of the stadium's construction, a particularly haunting image of DiMaggio watching its reconstruction in the '70s, hosts of action and publicity shots that span the decades, and a beautiful essay by Pete Hamill on Babe Ruth's farewell.
But it's Mel Allen, whose honeyed voice became synonymous with the Yankees from the late '30s through Casey Stengel's juggernauts and on into the '60s, who seems to capture the ethos of the place most clearly: "Suddenly," he remembers, "here I was, a guy supposed to practice law, broadcasting Yankee home games on radio from this mecca of baseball. This was the place, the number-one place in baseball. The stadium was like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of baseball, and every time I stepped inside of it I had to pinch myself!" In its own way, Yankee Stadium, dazzled as it is by its dazzling subject, manages to pinch itself pretty good as well. - Jeff Silverman of Amazon.Com
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"It leaves no doubt that Yankee Stadium is the single most prestigious piece of real estate in the history of American sports. To tell the history of the Yankees and Yankee Stadium is to essentially tell the history of baseball itself."
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