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Baseball Hall of Shame

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Simon & Schuster, Mar 15, 1989 - Sports & Recreation - 196 pages
THE HALLOWED HALL OF HITLESS WONDERS! THE IMMORTAL SHRINE OF SORE-LOSERS,CHEAP-SKATE OWNERS, AND ROWDY FANS!

Everyone knows about baseball's greatest hitters and fielders, about the iron men of the game. But, for the first time, here are baseball's loveable losers, the immortal boneheads of the game. Thousands of fans, players, broadcasters and sportswriters have contributed anecdotes about the flakes, the buffoons and all-around crummy guys who make baseball America's national sport. Here are:

  • The St. Louis Browns and the Chicago White Stockings committing 102 errors in a World Series
  • Norm Cash swinging his way to a batting title with an illegal bat
  • Ross "Skuz" Grimsley, who went weeks without changing his sweatshirt
  • N.Y. Giant owner Andrew Freedman, beating up other owners, umpires, fans -- even his own players!
  • And many more, including Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Whitey Ford, Joe Medwick, and of course, the famous traitor Walter O'Malley!

The worst plays! The dumbest trades! The most outrageous defeats! They're all enshrined in...The Baseball Hall Of Shame!

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User Review  - Ian - Goodreads

Being a life-long Cardinals fan, I enjoy not only watching quality baseball, but also reading entertaining baseball books. This book is well-written and researched, informative and humorous describing ... Read full review

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User Review  - Andrew Shuping - Goodreads

Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo have created an absolutely hilarious compendium of the dumbest aspects of Baseball, everything from dumb trades to dumb players to dumb plays, this book has it all. Read ... Read full review

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About the author (1989)

In 1969, Allan Zullo graduated with a journalism degree from Northern Illinois University where he worked on the school's daily paper, The Northern Star, first as a sportswriter, then news editor, managing editor and finally editor-in-chief. Allan created and wrote "The Ghost Story Club" daily comic strip, which was syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services from 1995 to 1998. For more than 16 years, Allan has produced dozens of annual boxed daily-page calendars for Andrews McMeel Publishing.Today Allan is the author and co-author of more than 80 current and forthcoming nonfiction trade paperbacks. Allan lives with his wife Kathryn (his childhood sweetheart and most honest critic) on the side of a mountain in Fairview, North Carolina, minutes from downtown Asheville, which some call Paris of the South or Little San Francisco of the East.

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