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Baseball's Bad Hops and Lucky Bounces [Paperback]

Mike Blake (Author)

3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review) |

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The dismal history of the Chicago Cubs may be traced to their former method of interviewing prospective managers. A sample query: "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" Blake (Baseball Chronicles, LJ 4/1/94) tells many such outrageous tales in this humorous book. Although not a necessary purchase, this will circulate well.
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Paperback: 243 pages
Publisher: Betterway Books (February 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558703683
ISBN-13: 978-1558703681
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,725,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Coffee table reading, October 29, 2005

Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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For what it is, not a bad selection of anecdotes and trivia. Could have done without the author's aside comments throughout the book and the stuff on Japanese baseball is now so out of date that it's irrelevant. From 1994 to now 2005, things have changed a lot across the Pacific such as tie games no longer the norm, catchers do block the plate, schedule is 140 games and saying fan seldom boo is just plain strange...Maybe in Tokyo but obviously this guy never went to a Hanshin Tigers vs. Yomiuri Giants game in Nishinomiya or any Hiroshima Carp home game.
I did not get this fascination to mention Japanese baseball whenever he could yet almost nothing is culled from the rich Caribbean baseball history. The book is, of course, mainly about MLB's wacky and wonderful and on that score it still is worth the $1.57 I paid to buy this used.

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