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Baseball Bits: Little-Known Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Dugout to the Outfield

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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!

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.