Description:In "Don't Blame the Knuckleballer! Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories," K.P. Wee looks at more than 30 obscure and forgotten tales told by ballplayers, coaches, and broadcasters throughout baseball history - and repeated by historians and bloggers - while mixing in a knuckleballing theme. For each tale, Wee asks, "Did this really happen?" or "Did they blame the right person?" Among the tales: * Did Joe Niekro really strike out the first five batters of a game in the very first inning? * Did Phil Niekro really make Floyd Robinson silly on a strikeout? * Did "Sunday Teddy" Lyons really pitch only on Sundays? * How did Tom Candiotti "botch" the Jeff Kent fantasy baseball story? * Did Pedro Martinez actually forget the details of his first big-league start and blame the wrong guy? * Did you know that Ted Williams had to face a knuckleballer on the next-to-last day of his historic 1941 season? * Was Mark Grace really on deck when Glenallen Hill hit his mammoth home run at Wrigley?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Don't Blame the Knuckleballer!: Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories. To get started finding Don't Blame the Knuckleballer!: Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Don't Blame the Knuckleballer!: Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories
Description: In "Don't Blame the Knuckleballer! Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories," K.P. Wee looks at more than 30 obscure and forgotten tales told by ballplayers, coaches, and broadcasters throughout baseball history - and repeated by historians and bloggers - while mixing in a knuckleballing theme. For each tale, Wee asks, "Did this really happen?" or "Did they blame the right person?" Among the tales: * Did Joe Niekro really strike out the first five batters of a game in the very first inning? * Did Phil Niekro really make Floyd Robinson silly on a strikeout? * Did "Sunday Teddy" Lyons really pitch only on Sundays? * How did Tom Candiotti "botch" the Jeff Kent fantasy baseball story? * Did Pedro Martinez actually forget the details of his first big-league start and blame the wrong guy? * Did you know that Ted Williams had to face a knuckleballer on the next-to-last day of his historic 1941 season? * Was Mark Grace really on deck when Glenallen Hill hit his mammoth home run at Wrigley?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Don't Blame the Knuckleballer!: Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories. To get started finding Don't Blame the Knuckleballer!: Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.