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£12.99
Published
28 May 2024
Paperback
978-1-91308-358-8
Ebook
Press Release
 

This masterful countdown of 50 of the most memorable episodes in baseball’s history will make you fall in love with the sport all over again – or indeed for the very first time.

No.1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends – Babe Ruth’s called shot, Kirk Gibson’s limping home run – alongside those raw with the humanity of the game: the unheralded heroes, the mesmerising mistakes. These are moments so powerful they feel like myth – even to a Brit raised on googlies, leg-slips and silly mid offs.

This is the book to infect a nation with a new sporting passion.

Old Street Publishing Why We Love Baseball

This masterful countdown of 50 of the most memorable episodes in baseball’s history will make you fall in love with the sport all over again – or indeed for the very first time.

No.1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends – Babe Ruth’s called shot, Kirk Gibson’s limping home run – alongside those raw with the humanity of the game: the unheralded heroes, the mesmerising mistakes. These are moments so powerful they feel like myth – even to a Brit raised on googlies, leg-slips and silly mid offs.

This is the book to infect a nation with a new sporting passion.

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‘Posnanski hits it out of the park in this rousing celebration of baseball. This will have readers cheering from their seats’ —Publishers Weekly (starred)

 
 
  • ‘Posnanski is a bit like the guy telling baseball stories at a bar – if that guy is clever, funny, not averse to hyperbole, sentiment or numerology, willing to go to great lengths to track down a fact and possessed of a way with words’
    —Wall Street Journal
  • ‘A joy… Read it, treasure it and share it with your baseball fan friends. It’s what baseball was meant to be.’
    —Illinois Times
  • ‘Our greatest living sportswriter’
    —CBS This Morning
  • ‘One of Posnanski’s winning ploys is to find hidden gems and especially to celebrate the mediocre players who, for one of those magical moments, pulled something out of their caps and hit a surprise homer’
    —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
 
 

Joe Posnanski is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Baseball 100, Paterno and The Secret of Golf. He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year by five different organisations. He writes at JoePosnanski.com and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his family.