Baseball Bits: Little-Known Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Dugout to the Outfield [Mass Market Paperback]

Dan Schlossberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 2008

A book that covers all the bases!

Everything fans want to know about the Great American Pastime… Written and compiled by baseball expert Dan Schlossberg, this book is chock-full of the best trivia, information, and fun facts about the game. Featuring interviews with players, managers, and other baseball professionals, as well as never-before-told stories, Baseball Bits is sure to hit a home run with just about anyone who’s interested in the game.

But that’s not all, because beyond the stories and trivia, the die-hard fan also wants the most recent information that affects this season. Inside each book is a password that lets readers log onto a website for up-to-the-minute information only available there. The site is guaranteed to be updated at least once a month—more frequently during the season—to provide readers with everything they need to know about the current season, including:

* The latest trades, and how they’ll affect particular Teams
* The best players’ current stats
* Who is about to break major records

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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About the Author

Dan Schlossberg is a former AP sportswriter and author of 33 baseball books, including Baseball Gold: Mining Nuggets from Our National Pastime and the 2006 autobiographies of Ron Blomberg and Milo Hamilton; as well as more than 25,000 articles about baseball. His 38-year journalism career runs the gamut from broadcast analyst and commentator to writer, author, and entrepreneur. He is managing editor of “BallTalk,” a syndicated weekly radio baseball show, and is the originator of the baseball theme cruise, coordinating and hosting more than 20 such cruises featuring major league stars. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; 1 edition (May 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159257775X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592577750
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,493,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific for Fans, September 2, 2008

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This review is from: Baseball Bits: Little-Known Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Dugout to the Outfield (Mass Market Paperback)

Baseball Bits by Dan Schlossberg is the author's newest of 33 books on the subject. Dan, a sportswriter for AP for 38 years knows all the stats about this favorite sport of the USA. Even if you think you know everything about baseball and its players and teams, you gotta get this book, chock full of fascinating tidbits and baseball trivia that will make your watching the game so much more fun!

1.0 out of 5 stars high and little bit outside, August 26, 2011

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Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baseball Bits: Little-Known Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Dugout to the Outfield (Mass Market Paperback)

This books' subtitle is "The best stories, facts and trivia ..." but that's a total misnomer. All it is is a poorly organized random compilation of trivia. It's so bizarre. Take this example:

"The career of Hank Gowdy was interrupted by service in both world wars."

That's all you get. Who is Hank Gowdy? Was he Curt Gowdy's dad? Who did he play for? Was he the only player that this happened to? the fact is just left hanging there on its own and is never expanded on. It's also slotted in a page that mainly focuses on hitting feats.

This is a simple example of how bizarre the book is.

There is also a lot of unnecessary mundane uninteresting info in here. His intros to each sections I found myself completely skipping over as the guy offers no insight or nothing new to the topics.

Honestly, there is a ton of great trivia in this book but unlike, say, Bill James's "Historical Baseball Abstract" or David Nemec and Scott Flatow's "Great Baseball Feats, Facts & Firsts," this particular book falls so flat because it's so poorly put together.