Baseball and the Blame Game: Scapegoating in the Major Leagues

by John Billheimer

Book Overview

Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays every bit as egregious.

In this smart, highly readable history of scapegoating, John Billheimer identifies the elements that combine to condemn one player to a life sentence while another gets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786429062
• ISBN13: 9780786429066
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher