The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book
- ISBN-10
- 0395586682
- ISBN-13
- 9780395586686
- Category
- Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Authors
- Brendan C. Boyd, Fred C. Harris
Description
This is an irreverent but affectionate trip back to the 1950s - before the graphics got better and the game got worse - when baseball cards ruled the American schoolyard. It presents more than 200 cards with biographies, accompanied by observations on trading, boarding, collecting, flipping and other aberrations of the baseball-card life. Among the anecdotes are Phil Linz's harmonica-playing, which once so infuriated general manager Ralph Houk that he fined Linz heavily and threatened to tear him limb from limb; Sam Jones, who never owned a hat that really fitted; Rip Sewall, who threw a pitch called the blooper ball; Rollie Sheldon, who threw pitches which were impossible to name; and Dick Turk Farrell, who even in his final years caused his catchers to put sponge in their mitts to withstand the sting of his fastball. Also included is a list of major league nicknames.
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- 1973
- 151 pages
- Paperback
- Little Brown & Company
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