Baseball's Bad Hops and Lucky Bounces (Paperback)

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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.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 243 pages
• Publisher: Betterway Publications (February 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558703683
• ISBN-13: 978-1558703681
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,745,453 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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

By	Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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 Could have done without the author's aside comments throughout the book and the stuff on Japanese baseball is now so out of date that it's irrelevant.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.