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books:

Tales from the Ballpark: More of the Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever Told (Shannon, Mike. Baseball Tales.)

8 reviews
Mike Shannon

Contemporary Books, 1999

two for two
Shannon has done it again. How often do we read baseball anecdote books, only to skip 3/4 of the stories, having already read them elsewhere. Well, it won't happen with Mike Shannon's books! It's clear that solid research has resulted in stories that are always unique and usually hilarious. I loved it, and you will too. Check out Tales From The Dugout, too. you won't be disappointed.

Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field And the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers

9 reviews
Bob McGee

Rutgers, 2006

Brooklyn As It Once Was-The Greatest Place to Grow Up
What differentiated this book from the countless others witten about the Brooklyn Dodgers was the author's attention to small detail. Now being from Brooklyn myself I appreciated this. The references to Steeplechase and the clown with paddles, Jim McElroy bring the Torre brothers to games at Ebbets field, the old Washington Park, Jack Kaiser, etc. For the average baseball fan outside of ...