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Loading... The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastimeby Jason Turbow
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was fun and interesting and you don't have to be a rabid baseball fan to understand or enjoy it. I'm a casual baseball fan at best and I liked this book. It was good to read the stories about some of the players who's names I knew. Some of the 'unwritten' rules were things I already knew about but others were rather obscure. The authors interviewed many players and had many stories to tell. Some were funny. In the chapter about cheating and stealing signs this one made me laugh out loud.
I liked this one and I'm keeping it out from the library so The Hubster can read it. This one really drew me in right from the start! Of course, the first story is one of my favorites - the fight between Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura! From that point on, this book is a baseball fan's delight! Lots of insight, behind the scenes drama, and some fun stuff too! If you love baseball, like I do, than pick this up right now, during the season, and give it a rip! no reviews | add a review
Everyone knows that baseball is a game of complicated rules, but it turns out to be even more complex than we realize. Jason Turbow and Michael Duca take us behind the scenes of the great American pastime. Players talk about the game as they never have before, breaking the code of secrecy that surrounds so much of baseball, both on the field and in the clubhouse. We learn why pitchers sometimes do retaliate when one of their teammates is hit by a pitch and other times let it go. We hear about the subtle forms of payback that occur when a player violates the rules out of ignorance instead of disrespect. We find out why cheating is acceptable (but getting caught at cheating is not), and how off-field tensions can get worked out on the diamond. These tacit rules are illuminated with often incredible stories about everyone from national heroes true eccentrics.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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Nolan Ryan, Carlton Fisk, Ricky Henderson, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Dusty Baker, Tommy Lasorda, Pete Rose, Goose Gossage, Mo Vaughn, George Foster, and many more of baseball's more colorful personalities are chronicled here.
I will say, if you read this book, you'll never look at baseball quite the same way again. You'll understand a lot of the unspoken politics playing out on the field and view them with a new appreciation, or disparagement.
It's well written, well organized, and features plenty of anecdotes to illustrate the codes. I highly recommend it for baseball fans. It's the same kind of inside scoop we felt like we were getting when we saw "Bull Durham" for the first time. The book lets you inside the game, warts and all. ( )