Tales from the Ballpark: More of the Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever Told

by Mike Shannon

Book Overview

Following his successful "Tales from the Dugout, " Mike Shannon continues to delight baseball fans with memorable anecdotes from the sport's past and present. 20 illustrations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809227711
• ISBN13: 9780809227716
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Very entertaining!

This book is very entertaining from start to finish. It's hard to put the book down once you start because the stories in it keep you glued to the book. The first book was great also. I just hope that Mike Shannon has a third installment in the works. There are a few glaring mistakes in the book that I must point out. Shannon refers to current Arizona 1st baseman Greg Colbrunn as "Colburn" and he states that Barry Bonds broke into the majors with the Pirates in '89 wearing number 24 when he actually entered in '86 wearing number 7, since Denny Gonzalez wore 24 back then.

two for two

Shannon has done it again. How often do we read baseball anecdote books, only to skip 3/4 of the stories, having already read them elsewhere. Well, it won't happen with Mike Shannon's books! It's clear that solid research has resulted in stories that are always unique and usually hilarious. I loved it, and you will too. Check out Tales From The Dugout, too. you won't be disappointed.

home run

Entertaining, well-written book. Vignettes range from poignant to the hilarious. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a passion for baseball and who can appreciate the author's mature and restrained style. A home run in my book.

This book was remarkably well written and I loved it.

This book was great.I got it for Christmas and I just couldn't put it down.Even though I'm just a middle schooler I can tell how much effort and work the author put into it.This book will be in my family as long as I live and those illustrations were great and since I do a lot of art I can really appreciate them.I would recommend this to anyone who truly loves the most beautiful game made, BASEBALL.

the funniest baseball stories I've ever read.

Tales from the Dugout was funny, but this book is even funnier. Other things I love about this book: you can read it a little at a time and not worry about losing your place in it; these are stories I haven't read in all my other baseball books; and it's PG, which means my kids can read it too.