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Errors and Fouls
Peter Handrinos
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Description for Errors and Fouls
Baseball is the most storied of American sports, but not all the stories are true. Likewise, most baseball traditions are wonderful. But not all of them. The game's most basic elements have often been misrepresented, misunderstood, and misremembered through the years. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 B bibliography; index. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 29. Weight in Grams: 638.
Baseball is the most storied of American sports, but not all the stories are true. Likewise, most baseball traditions are wonderful. But not all of them. The game’s most basic elements have often been misrepresented, misunderstood, and misremembered through the years. All along, fiction has coexisted with fact, hyperbole has mixed with history, and exaggeration has been mistaken for explanation. Meanwhile, baseball’s yen for tradition has left many fans and even baseball commentators unduly attached to stale ways of thinking. In Errors and Fouls, Peter Handrinos breaks from the past and provides an entertaining antidote to its outmoded ideas and ... Read more
Baseball is the most storied of American sports, but not all the stories are true. Likewise, most baseball traditions are wonderful. But not all of them. The game’s most basic elements have often been misrepresented, misunderstood, and misremembered through the years. All along, fiction has coexisted with fact, hyperbole has mixed with history, and exaggeration has been mistaken for explanation. Meanwhile, baseball’s yen for tradition has left many fans and even baseball commentators unduly attached to stale ways of thinking. In Errors and Fouls, Peter Handrinos breaks from the past and provides an entertaining antidote to its outmoded ideas and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612345604
SKU
V9781612345604
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About Peter Handrinos
Peter Handrinos is the author of four books, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, and a rec player in Norwalk, Connecticut. Of Peter's work, Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Wolff has said "I've never seen a young writer take on so many sports topics, or approach them with such preparation and joy."
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