Big League Balderdash Tall Tales of Dandies, Thugs and Cheats Who Forged Our National Pastime

Name: Big League Balderdash Tall Tales of Dandies, Thugs and Cheats Who Forged Our National Pastime
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ISBN: 9781493538782

ISBN-10: 1493538780

ISBN-13: 9781493538782

Edition: N/A

Authors: Tracy Tomkowiak

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Baseball's Origins Reimagined. Forget Abner Doubleday, the Elysian Fields and the rest of those antiquated chestnuts from the past-Big League Balderdash turns the myth of baseball's origins on its head and replaces it with a fresh, satirical revamp flavored with a twist of biting humor and irony. Follow the game from the mid-1800s as it hurls headlong through its first four decades, beginning as a rustic diversion in a logging camp and culminating with the first-ever "World's Series," a winner-take-all contest between industrialist J. Barron Sterne's prim and proper American Association League and pugnacious National Frontier League headed by chirpy beer baron Pete Schnockerd. Along the way…

Book details

List price: $13.03
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 10/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Tracy Tomkowiak is a graphic designer who lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and two sons. His interests include history, biographies and...wait for it...baseball.