Baseball's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the National Pastime's Outrageous Offenders, Lucky Bounces, and Other Oddities

By Floyd Conner

Book Overview

Edd Roush was once ejected from a game for falling asleep in the outfield. Dan Friend played left field while dressed in a bathrobe. Outfielder Len Koenecke was killed attempting history's first skyjacking. Pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich swapped not only their wives but also their children, station wagons, and pets.Baseball history is brimming with the weird, the bizarre, and the hard to believe. Baseball's Most Wanted(TM)chronicles 700 of the most outlandish players, managers, and owners throughout baseball history. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail baseball's top-ten inept players, strange plays, bad practical jokes, bizarre nicknames, murderers, politicians, Don Juans, unusual contracts, notable nicknames, curses, worst trades, freak injuries, unsolved mysteries, least-known records, and more. Many of these anecdotes have been published here for the first time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574882295
• ISBN13: 9781574882292
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This is great to add to your collection....some humor goes a long way in real life too!!!!!!

Funny and diverting

This isn't a book you take your time with -- it can be finished in a few hours and forgotten about not shortly after. The book is nothing more than a Top 10 list with a paragraph explaining each entry. The list covers trivia that goes from informative to hilarious to insightful to just strange -- subjects include Top 10 Politicians that played baseball, Top 10 Womenizers, Top 10 One Game Wonders, Top 10 Wild Pitchers, Top 10 Curses . . . . you get the idea. It's amusing enough and addictive. I'm surprised by how many friends have picked it up, read a few pages and then asked to borrow it.

BAseball Fun

A terrific book. All fun and trivia together for the real fan of baseball Highly Recommend

A great book for Baseball fans and non fans alike

I'm not a big baseball fan, but I found this book to be great fun anyway. Check out hte chapter on stupid things that players have said over the years--it will have you howling. Great fun for basbeall fans and trivia buffs.