The All-Star Bathroom Sampler: A Sports Fan's Collection of Easily Digestible Lists, Facts, Stories, and Anecdotes - Softcover

Brallier, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599214768 ISBN 13: 9781599214764

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2009

Synopsis

The All-Star Bathroom Sampler is a one-of-a-kind treasure-trove of eminently entertaining facts, stories, trivia, and anecdotes for sports fans everywhere—regardless of geographic location, team loyalties, or sports preferences. Insider-author Max Brallier culls the best of the best from the great reservoir of sports information and writing out there in the world’s ether. These are absorbing nuggets of reading that, while more filling than simple trivia, don’t seek to recreate in miniature the experience that Sports Illustrated and the New Yorker articles provide—namely, an unintended nap on the can.

  

The All-Star Bathroom Sampler can either be enjoyed from start to finish or picked up and read in small, satisfying snippets. It will be treasured—whether in the bathroom, on the couch, or in bed—by sports fans everywhere, readers of trivia, and collectors of amusing and entertaining sports stories, anecdotes, and trivia. 

 

• Weird sports
• Athletes and the law
• Yogiisms and other quotes
• Jokes
• Biographies
• Records
• History
• Team profiles
• Sports and politics
• Sports & sex
• Rules

About this title

About the Author

Max Brallier is the author of Reasons to Smoke and Reasons to Drink. He works in publishing and lives in New York City..

From the Back Cover

A one-of-a-kind treasure-trove of eminently entertaining facts, stories, trivia,

and anecdotes for sports fans everywhere

FROM THE AUTHOR S INTRODUCTION

To all the sports fans, benchwarmers, and backups that populate the bathrooms of this great world?here is your bathroom bible. Facts, quotes, jokes, anecdotes, trivia, history, and more, we ve got a little something for everyone. If you re ambitious, read it all in one sitting, front to back. Or back to front. Or upside down. It doesn t matter. Pick a page and dive in. Flip around? that s the whole idea.Sit back, do your business, and enjoy.

Baseball Myths Debunked! ? The Tragic Tale of Ted s Head ? More about Baseball
Wilt Chamberlain & the 20,000 Ladies ? Magic on Bird, Bird on Magic ? More about Basketball
Poker slang ? Basics of Betting
Ali the Philosopher ? More about Boxing
By the Numbers
Dang Refs
Philosophy of Fishing
Football Myths Debunked! ? The Immaculate Reception ? More about Football
Golf Hustlers ? Goofy Golf Terms

Strange Sports ? Blame It on the Lawyers
Hockey Goons ? The Legend of the Octopus ? More about Hockey
A Little History
Movies and Music and Stuff
Name Crazy
Other Sports We Love
Sex, Scandals, and Screw-Ups
Quizzes!

Edition details

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599214768
• ISBN 13: 9781599214764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352