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Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball

Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball

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Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0312362242
ISBN13: 9780312362249
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: May 27 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent more than twenty-five years covering almost three thousand major league baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers, and executives.

In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge, and deep love of the game, to create a book filled with some of the most fascinating insight into Major League Baseball this side of Jim Bouton's bestseller, Ball Four. Whether he's explaining what goes through a ballplayer's mind when he faces a fastball in the chapter My Face Was Crushed by a Bowling Ball Going 90 MPH, detailing bizarre rituals and superstitions performed by baseball's greatest players, or taking us into the locker room to see what transpires in the clubhouse of a major league team, Kurkjian's tales are at times hilarious, other times horrifying, yet always entertaining.

Kurkjian has spoken to some of the greatest ballplayers ever over the years, and they have revealed details about themselves and the game they love with a candor that readers won't find anywhere else. Filled with anecdotes and fascinating insights, this is an essential book for baseball fans or anyone curious about America's pastime.

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