The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome Trivia: From the Legendary to the Obscure, 500 Baseball Questions Covering All the Numbers, the Moments, the Records, Even the Nicknames

By Ken Shouler

Book Overview

What baseball team was the first all-professional team?
What team won its first five World Series appearances?
The first radio broadcast of a Major League game occurred in what year, in what city, and on what station?
This player hit the first All-Star Game home run in what year?

In The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome Trivia, baseball aficionado Ken Shouler packs in more than 500 Q&As, covering the game's all-time greats and not-so-greats, teams past and present, legend and lore, colorful personalities, and, of course, the numbers. Test your knowledge with dozens of quizzes on remarkable game moments, historical turning points, and mind-blowing statistics. Licensed by Major League Baseball and checked by the Baseball Hall of Fame, this book brims with bafflers, stunners, and confounders that will take you into extra innings.

Perfect for the box seat, bleachers, or bar stool, The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome Trivia will challenge devotees and enlighten novices the all-time Great American Game.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061073733
• ISBN13: 9780061073731
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A good book with lots of tricky questions !

It's a nice book full with nice and tricky questions about the americas past time. It's funny ! Nice to read when you're in the subway or something like that (or when you're fall sleep)... a nice piece filled with history and great moments of baseball !