On a Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place: Baseball's Worst Teams

by Charles Salzberg and George Robinson

Book Overview

To err is human. To really screw up requires team effort. Everyone cheers the clubs that win pennants, but what about the doormats who made their triumphs possible? It's time to give baseball's lousiest teams their due. Here they are: The 1904 Washington Senators, whose only good player, a thirty-five-year-old star hitter, took a dive (fatally, into Niagara Falls); the 1935 Boston Braves, who set the National League standard for losing percentage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803229887
• ISBN13: 9780803229884
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining

As a lifelong baseball fan, I've read many baseball books, usually inspiring, entertaining stories about stars or great winning moments, but this one is a rare, funny and informative book about the other side. The side-bar stories about some of the charactors that "contributed" to these teams are interesting in themselves. Most people have worked for a company that went through hard times, or maybe even were associated with an inept group somewhere along the line, and this book makes you laugh and smile as you think back on your own experiences.

Interesting baseball history

Salzberg and Robinson do a fine job of detailing ten of the worst teams in baseball history. They do a fine job of covering both minor details and the larger picture, with humor and intelligence. I doubt this would intrigue non-baseball fans but fans of the game should enjoy it. Hopefully in 2 years the authors will update it with a worst team of the 90s entry.