Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book

Name: Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
Price: 7.22 USD
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ISBN: 9780395586686

ISBN-10: 0395586682

ISBN-13: 9780395586686

Edition: N/A

Authors: Brendan C. Boyd, Fred C. Harris

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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…

Book details

List price: $10.95
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English