Incredible Baseball Stories: Amazing Tales from the Diamond

by Ken Samelson (Editor)

The works in Incredible Baseball Stories cover the full span of baseball’s rich history. Fans of all ages will enjoy recalling the great and not-so-great moments of the most popular names in the sport. Found in this collection are timeless tales that enable the reader

• Relive great World Series moments like Kirk Gibson’s home run off Dennis Eckersley
• Find out what it’s like to pitch to Ted Williams
• Witness record-breaking performances by Babe Ruth and Henry Aaron
• Learn what goes on behind the scenes of drafting stars like Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez
• And follow along for many more baseball adventures!

With three dozen photographs that beautifully illustrate the anecdotes, Incredible Baseball Stories is the perfect gift for baseball fans of all ages.

Genres: Baseball, Sports

248 pages, Paperback

Published April 4, 2017

Reviews

[Chuck Neumann · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Incredible baseball stories" is a very good collection of stories about baseball through the centuries, although I think most were more interesting than incredible. The book starts with Albert Spalding discussing the evolution of the game, John McGraw talking about team work, a fictional story by Ring Lardner, and goes on to visit Ty Cobb at his Georgia home, discuss the 1919 White Sox scandal, and looks at some great games by players like Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Warren Spahn.. The life of Moe Berg, a back up catcher but first rate spy, is written about. How Jim Thome was scouted, the Sandy Koufax perfect game, how Bobby Cox managed, Christy Mathewson discussing the "Merkle boner" game are some of the other stories in the book. It finishes with a story about Jim Bouton, a hero of the editor. The stories cover the game from the mid 19th century to the very recent times in no real order. I really enjoyed the book, and recommend it to all baseball fans.

[Randolph Rossi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Baseball A Timeless Game

A very good collection of stories on the former National Past Time. The story about the 1960 World Series makes a very important point in that the Owners and the Executives of Baseball should look at the length and the conduct of the games during this series to see that today’s game has too many interruptions by both the hitters and pitchers. The story on Ty Cobb was a total puff piece in it made him to be a wonderful person. The author states many players disliked him because of jealousy but the true reason is that though he was very talented, he was also an extremely dirty player that sharpened his spikes and would attempt to spike opposing players.

Overall it was an enjoyable book and I learned about players I hadn’t heard much about. I’d recommend the book to people who enjoy reading about old time Baseball.

[Mitchell Haskins · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars but round down. This book was interesting, but I think I just find dead ball era stuff so boring. I think it’s cool baseball has all this lore, but some of these passages were so irrelevant. Still decent though didn’t hate it.