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^^^Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs^^^
Baseball's Grand (and not-so-grand) Finales
Bill Chuck, Jim Kaplan, Foreword by Jon Miller
$14.95
ISBN: 3427
Book (Paperback)
7 x 9
304 pages
April 2008
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A collection to savor and rediscover for generations.
— Doug Miller, MLB.com Baseball Bookshelf
Walkoffs does what all good baseball books do. It tells interesting stories—some you’ll be familiar with, some you won’t—and provides a wealth of information.
— David Lister, The National Sports Review
A terrific collection of untold tales and familiar stories with a new twist!
— Ira Berkow, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter
A handy gift, Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs is a splendid almanac for fans.
— Postscripts
A homerun trot around the bases of baseball history.
— Glenn Guzzo, award-winning author of Strat-O-Matic Fanatics and The New Ballgame
A welcome refresher course in baseball dramatics--one in which the authors' grasp of the game and their love of it both shine through.
— Mark Starr, Newsweek
One of my favorites of recent seasons...
a treasure trove of goodies for all baseball fans.
— Harvey Frommer, Frommer Sports
No baseball fan can get enough of walk-off stories. These are the best.
— Mark Bittman,author of How to Cook Everything
Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs is the definitive collection of baseball’s grand—and not-so grand—final acts. It celebrates the moments that became instant classics—like Carlton Fisk waving fair his home run in the 1975 World Series—and memorializes those tragedies from baseball’s ignominious lore—like Fred Merkle failing to touch second base and forcing a 1908 National League tiebreaker.
Features of the book include:
- The greatest postseason finishes of all-time
- A comprehensive breakdown of every perfect game in MLB history
- The last moments of the most distinguished old stadiums
- Heroic (and not-so-heroic) endings to Hall of Fame careers
- Eulogies and career statistics for ballplayers who passed before their time
- Boxscores and linescores for the greatest games ever played
- A slew of career statistics, ballpark data, and photographs
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Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs is perfect for trivia heads, fans who want to know more about baseball history, and for those fans wondering where their own memories rank among the great (and not-so-great) finishes of all time. A must-have for any baseball library.
| BILL CHUCK is the founder and primary voice of Billy-Ball.com, a quirky look at the past, present and
future of baseball. His work also appears on MSNBC.com, NBCSports.com, and MLB.com. |
| JIM KAPLAN is a former writer for Sports Illustrated and the author of Lefty Grove: American Original, and a book about Casey Stengel, The Gospel According to Casey, co-authored with Ira Berkow. |
This corrects two errors appearing in Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs..
- Page 135 declares four players ended their careers in the same city where they started but with different teams. Actually there were five.
- Page 200 lists four of these players—Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth and Dutch Zwilling. But there was a fifth: Yogi Berra, who began his career with the New York Yankees and ended with the New York Mets.
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