Who Was Traded for Lefty Grove?: Baseball's Fun Facts and Serious Trivia (Paperback)

by Mr. Mike Attiyeh (Author) "Game One of the 1976 World Series..." (more)
Key Phrases: match these players, career hitter, baseball research, World Series, New York, Hall of Fame (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Attiyeh presents each answer as a mini-essay on relevant aspects of baseball history. Included are biographical details, player perspectives, team performances, heroic accounts, pitching duels, descriptions of specific games, and statistics... The gamut of questions includes facets of the game's basic history as well as information on the major and minor leagues, Negro leagues, and women's leagues... Trivia may well be unimportant, worthless information. But Attiyeh's presentation offers every level of baseball enthusiast an enjoyable and challenging learning opportunity for experiencing the game's long and colorful history." -- Jerry Wright, www.haroldseymour.com (The Official Home of Baseball Historian Dr. Harold Seymour and the SABR Seymour Medal Award)

Book Description

A baseball trivia challenge for the true fan, this book presents over 300 facts about the national pastime

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (March 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801870399
• ISBN-13: 978-0801870392
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #982,332 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great book, June 13, 2004

By A Customer

A great book with one flaw: no index. It should be federally mandated that any baseball book of facts - especially one as well researched as this one - come with an index. Otherwise, the highest recommendation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent fun, November 12, 2002

By	Paul Lanning (Lodi, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a book for the thinking fan. This is not some ordinary, garden variety baseball trivia book. Rather, this book is filled with an amazing amount of research and it is borne out in the facts and figures that accompany every "question" in the book. Each question serves in part as part of a trivia game, but also simply is the header for detailed discussions on a wide variety of very interesting topics related to the history of the game. A definite must-read for any baseball fan, and a great holiday gift!