Over the Edge

by Jay Johnstone, Rick Talley

Offers a collection of anecdotes about baseball's most outrageous moments, from the ballparks and dugouts to the hotels and clubhouses

Genres: Baseball, Sports, Nonfiction, Humor, Biography

212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1987

Reviews

[N.N. Heaven]

This book, likely very hard to find, is a fantastic and fun baseball read.



Johnstone was one of my faves as a youth with his play on the mid 70's Phillies. It seemed like they were always on the NBC game of the week and I got to watch Jay Johnstone play all the time. His baseball cards were a treasure to me.



In this book, Jay takes you on a rambling journey through baseball. He provides his best anecdotes (or the best he has heard) on various baseball subjects like Winter Ball, Minors, College World Series and more. All sorts of great stories are here. You will find yourself laughing out loud constantly. A wonderful fun baseball read for any fan of the game.



My Rating: 5 stars




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[Justin]

This is the perfect kind of baseball book: A series of anecdotes that tonally and humorously relay someone's experience in the game at the pro level. Writers typically give baseball all this credit for being so far up its own ass, waxing poetic about sunsets over the stadium or pitching performances. Hearing from the players directly means that we get less concern over winning a Pulitzer and more focus on the good stuff: Stories about being too drunk to open a hotel room door, about missing an at-bat because you were ironing your uniform in the clubhouse; you know, more than just "We were good that year, and then we won it all." Johnstone is a natural storyteller and we're lucky he had a near unlimited amount of them to tell.

[David Barney]

Very entertaining

[Kamas Kirian]

Another entry into the really wacky world of Jay Johnstone and his baseball career. This one has more stories of other players and especially lists than Temporary Insanity did. But, it's still one of the funniest books, baseball or otherwise, that I've ever read.