Errors and Fouls: Inside Baseball's Ninety-Nine Most Popular Myths
Peter Handrinos, "Errors and Fouls: Inside Baseball's Ninety-Nine Most Popular Myths"
English | ISBN: 1612345603 | 2013 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1612345603 | 2013 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Baseball is the most storied of American sports, but not all the stories are true.
The national pastime's most basic elements have often been misunderstood, misremembered, and otherwise mis'ed throughout the years. Along the way hyperbole has mixed with history, exaggeration has substituted for explanation, and fallacy has co-existed with fact.
'Errors and Fouls: Inside Baseball's 99 Most Popular Myths' presents an entertaining antidote to all the above. It debunks the familiar, but faulty, notions brought up when commentators suppose that baseball has fallen behind football's popularity, that steroids act as true performance enhancers, that new ballparks rip off taxpayers, and so on.
'Errors and Fouls' also provides surprising new answers on topics from clutch hitting to competitive balance, statistics to society, performances to personalities, and more. It's intended for any fan who appreciates both thoughtful analysis and lighthearted wit.
In both its substance and style, 'Errors and Fouls' places baseball in a compelling new light. While the book courts controversy, all readers can agree that it's a page-turner.
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