Out of Left Field: Over 1,134 Newly Discovered Amazing Baseball Records, Connections, Coincidences, and More! - Softcover

Lyons, Jeffrey; Lyons, Douglas B.

 
9780812929935: Out of Left Field: Over 1,134 Newly Discovered Amazing Baseball Records, Connections, Coincidences, and More!
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0812929934 ISBN 13: 9780812929935
Verlag: Times Books, 1998

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Filled with obscure enough baseball lore to surprise the most devoted baseball buff, the authors draw on three years of poring over old newspapers, interviewing players, and traveling to ballparks to deliver a wealth of trivia. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jefrey Lyons is the entertainment critic for New York City's WNBC-TV and host of the nationally syndicated radio feature The Lyons Den.  He is the former cohost of PBS's film review show Sneak Preview and has been a guest broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox.

Douglas B. Lyons, Jeffrey's younger brother, is a criminal lawyer in New York City.  Jeffrey's first words to Douglas, when Jeffrey was three and Douglas was four days old, were "Are you a Dodger fan?"

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oduction by Bob Costas of NBC Sports, Out of Left Field is the perfect book for the baseball fan who has read it all. Jeffrey and Douglas Lyons's three years of research have dug out a diamond mine of fascinating, never-before-seen gems, such as:

Themajor league team that broadcasts all of its games in London
The mother and son who both played pro ball
The .252 hitter who had an entire town named after him
The only big-leaguer directed by Alfred Hitchcock

With a question and answer format, Out of Left Field is the one book that diehard baseball fans will savor from cover to cover.

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Verlag
Times Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812929934
ISBN 13 
9780812929935
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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