Some ball players are remembered for their home runs and great plays--but imagine being famous for blowing the game. Offering play-by-play descriptions of the games, historical trivia, and lifetime statistics of key players, this book shows how life goes on even after the worst moments--and how a little mistake can sometimes make a very big difference. Photos.
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Baseball's Biggest Bloopers The Games That Got Away,
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I read the book Baseball's Biggest Bloopers The Games That Got Away by Dan Gutman. This book was about players that blew it big time! Many of thwe games lost the World Series for the team. But somtimes it just lost the game and the team came back and won the Series. In this book there are 12 humiliating stories that will make even you, fell bad for the players. My favorite story was Herb Washington Designated Pick-Off Victim. It was about an olympic runner that was taken to the Oakland A's. When he got to the Statdium he didn't even know how to play baseball, and teh A's tought him how to paly and then n one game he got picked-off. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes baseball or any sports.
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A must for baseball fans,
By Anthony Soriente (USA/New York City/Queens/South Ozone Park) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Baseball's Biggest Bloopers: The Games that Got Away (Paperback)
Baseball is a tough sport to play sometimes. Many times players make mistakes called bloopers. These bloopers you see in almost every game. Sometimes they cost a regular game, a pennant, or to make it worse the world series! This book has tons of it. It talks about players who mess up the game so bad they have the rest of their life to think what they did wrong! You will enjoy this book so much that once you done reading, you can't stop! So buy this book. It's called Baseballs biggest bloopers the games that got away. This will be one of the greatest baseball books you will ever get!
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So, other people make mistakes, too? Not just me?,
By Theodore (Ventura, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Baseball's Biggest Bloopers: The Games that Got Away (Paperback)
We all make mistakes and if you love baseball and if you enjoy hearing about how other people made bigger mistakes than you ever will - mistakes that cost World Series titles - then Dan Gutman has written a book for you.
"Baseball's Biggest Bloopers" is a pleasure to read, because "Biggest Bloopers" reviews the charming history of twelve (12) major league mistakes in baseball's past, provides follow-up information so that we know the mistake-makers recovered and lived a happy and productive life, and prepares us to expect mistakes in the future that could cost us and our friends a lot of money - and to not get excessively upset about it. Gutman refreshingly writes in the introduction, "Even the best in the world screw up now and then. Nobody's perfect. Mistakes are a part of life. We're only human. The greatest players in the game make mistakes" (p. x). A person might object and say that there are only 12 mistakes reviewed in the book and the history of baseball clearly has a bunch more. My response is to say that while it is pleasurable to read about another person's major blunders and to learn how he humbly admitted his mistake and laughed it off, the chapters deal with tragic experiences that can bum a person out. So thankfully Gutman includes only twelve. Gutman's "Biggest Bloopers" makes a perfect birthday or Christmas gift, since his book is easy to read, gives touching and personal information about the "goats" who blew major games, has a handy review of stats and baseball history at the end of each chapter and contains vintage photographs of early baseball players.
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FREDERICK CHARLES MERKLE stepped up to the plate for the Giants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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World Series, Red Sox, National League, Fred Merkle, New York Giants, Lonnie Smith, Mickey Owen, Bill Buckner, Babe Ruth, Hank Gowdy, Babe Herman, Did You Know, American League, Curt Flood, Hall of Fame, Herb Washington, Lifetime Statistics, White Sox, Christy Mathewson, Fred Snodgrass, World Champions, Brooklyn Dodgers, Hack Wilson, Don Denkinger, Johnny Evers New!
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FREDERICK CHARLES MERKLE stepped up to the plate for the Giants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lucky grapefruit, fielding average, one inning, tying run, tenth inning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Series, Red Sox, National League, Fred Merkle, New York Giants, Lonnie Smith, Mickey Owen, Bill Buckner, Babe Ruth, Hank Gowdy, Babe Herman, Did You Know, American League, Curt Flood, Hall of Fame, Herb Washington, Lifetime Statistics, White Sox, Christy Mathewson, Fred Snodgrass, World Champions, Brooklyn Dodgers, Hack Wilson, Don Denkinger, Johnny Evers New!
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