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Baseball's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of the National Pastime's Outrageous Offenders, Lucky Bounces, and Other Oddities - Softcover
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Edd Roush was once 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 also their children, station wagons, and pets. Baseball history is brimming with the weird, the bizarre, and the hard to believe. Baseball's Most Wanted™chronicles 700 of the most outlandish players, managers, and owners throughout baseball history. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail baseball’s top-ten inept players, strange plays, bad practical jokes, bizarre nicknames, murderers, politicians, Don Juans, unusual contracts, notable nicknames, curses, worst trades, freak injuries, unsolved mysteries, least-known records, and more. Many of these anecdotes have been published here for the first time.
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Baseball's rich history is brimming with the weird, the bizarre, the hard to believe. Baseball's Most Wanted chronicles more than 700 of the most outlandish players, managers, and owners since the game began:- * 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
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Floyd Conner is the author of numerous popular sports books, including Baseball's Most Wanted(TM), Football's Most Wanted(TM), and Golf!, which sold more than 150,000 copies. He has been interviewed many times for radio, newspaper, and television and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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- PublisherPotomac Books, Inc.
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1574882295
- ISBN 13 9781574882292
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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