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Baseball's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Nat'L Pastime's Outrageous Offenders (Brassey's Most Wanted)
Baseball's Most Wanted The Top 10 Book of Nat'L Pastime's Outrageous Offenders - Brassey's Most Wanted Author:Floyd Conner Edd Roush was ejected from a game for falling asleep in the outfield. Dan Friend played left field while dressed in a bathrobe. Outfielder Len Koenecke was killed attempting history's first skyjacking. Pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich swapped not only their wives but their children, station wagons and pets. Baseball's rich history is ... more »brimming with the weird, the bizarre, the hard to believe. Baseball's Most Wanted chronicles more than seven hundred of the most outlandish players, managers, and owners since the game began. Its seventy top-ten lists describe in humorous detail baseball's most inept players, strangest plays, worst practical jokes, most bizarre nicknames, stupidest trades, freakiest injuries, least known records, and much more. It even lists players who became murderers--and players who became politicians. Many of these anecdotes have been published here for the first time. BASEBALL'S MOST WANTED is a quirky, irreverant look at the rich history of America's national pastime.« less