Don't Blame the Knuckleballer!: Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519386762)

In "Don't Blame the Knuckleballer! Baseball Legends, Myths, and Stories," K.P. Wee looks at more than 30 obscure and forgotten tales told by ballplayers, coaches, and broadcasters throughout baseball history - and repeated by historians and bloggers - while mixing in a knuckleballing theme. For each tale, Wee asks, "Did this really happen?" or "Did they blame the right person?" Among the tales: * Did Joe Niekro really strike out the first five batters of a game in the very first inning? * Did Phil Niekro really make Floyd Robinson silly on a strikeout? * Did "Sunday Teddy" Lyons really pitch only on Sundays? * How did Tom Candiotti "botch" the Jeff Kent fantasy baseball story? * Did Pedro Martinez actually forget the details of his first big-league start and blame the wrong guy? * Did you know that Ted Williams had to face a knuckleballer on the next-to-last day of his historic 1941 season? * Was Mark Grace really on deck when Glenallen Hill hit his mammoth home run at Wrigley?

Author: K. P. Wee
ISBN-10: 1519386761
ISBN-13: 9781519386762
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2015
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.45d