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Introduction 1
My Mom Was My Catcher 5
Business ... But It's a Pleasure 21
I'll Beat You Playing from My Knees 39
Phil Niekro's Teeth 59
I'm Old, I'm Fat, I'm Bald, I'm Ugly, I Have a Plate in My Head 77
My Face Was Crushed by a Bowling Ball Going 90 MPH 97
I Need It Now-Stat! 119
Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign 137
I'm Whacked 149
There Was a Blimp in Left Field 167
The Sun Will Rise, the Sun Will Set, and I'll Have Lunch 179
It's Ambidextrous, Not Amphibious 191
Angel, My Man 201
Why Can't There Be a Left-Handed Catcher? 217
Just Grab That Bat as Tight as You Can, Son 227
I Love Ketchup 239
Why Waste the 90 Seconds on the Front Page? 257
Acknowledgments 275
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Ole Barre
reviewed Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball on August 17, 2007
Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball
This book is simultaneously pointless and incredibly wonderful; I mean, it's mostly 275 pages of Kurkjian telling baseball stories, which is, ultimately, pointless, but he's a good writer, funny and observant, and he tells stories on just about everybody in the major (and sometimes minor) leagues in the course of the book. Not a book to read if you want to be made to think or consider the greater implications of baseball, but funny and full of good stories.
(I'd have given Kurkjian four stars instead of three, because there are some stories in this that made me laugh so hard I cried, except that he spends a little too much time taking backhanded pot-shots at the Orioles' organization. Look, Tim, man: it is not the Orioles' fault that you were the beat writer for the Sun when the O's were really bad in the '80s. Seriously. I understand that it sucked, but I guarantee you, Tim, the Orioles didn't enjoy it any more than you did, and they probably enjoyed it A WHOLE LOT less. Same goes for the early '80s Rangers: stop being a dick to these clubs and acknowledge that you got your motherfrakking start writing about the really, really bad Orioles' team in '88. You owe them, man.)
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Add Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent more than twenty-five years covering almost three thousand major league baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers, and executives. In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combine, Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent more than twenty-five years covering almost three thousand major league baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers, and executives. In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combine, Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball to your collection on WonderClub |