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Baseball Inside Out: The Game Within the Game
An offbeat investigation into the unspoken etiquette in the game of baseball discusses cheating, violence, autograph signing, spitballs, fan behavior, and more. 20,000 first printing.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1992
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July 13, 2014
It's actually called 'Baseball Inside Out: Winning the Game within the Games'. I noticed Amazon doesn't have it quite right either.
A true 'inside baseball' book, and the stories and historical facts are brief and interesting. It seems to cover the time period from the early 1920's to 1989, explaining how various past major league hitters, pitchers, managers and general managers responded to the demands of the game and each other's personalities when pitching, hitting, motivating and hiring. Along the way of explaining what the players are thinking when up to bat or on the mound, feuds and dysfunctional teams are exposed with obviously insider information, but nothing too horrible. A few famous moments in professional game history, as well as the author's reviews of what he believed were the worst trades in his watching of the game through the decades are fascinating.
It's laid out very concisely and dense with particular information, even if mostly air-brushed. It doesn't mean it is written in Pollyanna-gushing, but dramas are played down. I think the author wanted to explore the mental angles of the game; for example, pitcher tricks used to intimidate or trick the hitter as to what kind of pitch was going to be thrown, and what hitters are thinking when a pitcher who is known to bean hitters is throwing a ball at him 100 miles an hour. I was amazed to read what kind of contracts were signed by the top, but unrepresented, baseball players who were cheated by coaches/managers who explicitly received into their own pockets whatever they cheated the player of.
It's divided into four parts:
Pitchers and Hitters
The Manager's Game
Clubhouse Chemistry
The GM's Burden
I really liked it and found the stories fascinating.
A true 'inside baseball' book, and the stories and historical facts are brief and interesting. It seems to cover the time period from the early 1920's to 1989, explaining how various past major league hitters, pitchers, managers and general managers responded to the demands of the game and each other's personalities when pitching, hitting, motivating and hiring. Along the way of explaining what the players are thinking when up to bat or on the mound, feuds and dysfunctional teams are exposed with obviously insider information, but nothing too horrible. A few famous moments in professional game history, as well as the author's reviews of what he believed were the worst trades in his watching of the game through the decades are fascinating.
It's laid out very concisely and dense with particular information, even if mostly air-brushed. It doesn't mean it is written in Pollyanna-gushing, but dramas are played down. I think the author wanted to explore the mental angles of the game; for example, pitcher tricks used to intimidate or trick the hitter as to what kind of pitch was going to be thrown, and what hitters are thinking when a pitcher who is known to bean hitters is throwing a ball at him 100 miles an hour. I was amazed to read what kind of contracts were signed by the top, but unrepresented, baseball players who were cheated by coaches/managers who explicitly received into their own pockets whatever they cheated the player of.
It's divided into four parts:
Pitchers and Hitters
The Manager's Game
Clubhouse Chemistry
The GM's Burden
I really liked it and found the stories fascinating.
July 2, 2015
6/1/15
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