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Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.: An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore

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great book, at least as a starting point for famous lines, speeches, and thoughts on the game of baseball.

lot's of laughs, lot's of history.

i think this book should be used as a springboard for more detailed sayings, writings, and quotes, by particular individuals that you enjoyed from this book. as an example, i would suggest any yogi berra quote book, but heck, any baseball knew that already. books authored by boswell are also a good read.
i am currently reading about bill veeck, as this book reminded me about him. if a particular players, coach, writer, announcer, etc had quotes you enjoy, then obviously look up more books by or about that person.

I have the earlier version of this book, copyright 1991, but am donating it to a library and buying the 2008 updated version. This is a wonderful book, especially for baseball fans, but also for people who know something about baseball but aren't students of the game. You can just flip open to any page at random and learn things about people and the game, by the quotes. You can laugh, cry, think, or dream. A wonderful book, and I'm glad it has been revised and updated.

This is one of those books by the great Paul Dickson that make you get lost in the world of baseball.
And when you're ready with this one you'll buy more of the kind.(I did)