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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Hoax That Will Not Die: Cooperstown and the Doubleday Myth | 3 |
| 2 | 1904: The First Year Without a World Series | 10 |
| 3 | "Bonehead Merkle": The Baserunning Blunder That Lost a Pennant (1908) | 17 |
| 4 | Cobb or Lajoie: Who Really Won the 1910 American League Batting Title? | 24 |
| 5 | Innocent but Still Guilty: The Lifetime Banishment of Buck Weaver and Joe Jackson (1919 World Series) | 32 |
| 6 | Darkness at the Polo Grounds: George Hildebrand Calls the Game (1922 World Series) | 39 |
| 7 | Sam Rice's Vanishing Act: Was It a Catch or a Home Run? (1925 World Series) | 46 |
| 8 | The "Quick Pitch" Controversy: Did Babe Ruth Receive Preferential Treatment? (1928 World Series) | 52 |
| 9 | The Stuff of Legends: Babe Ruth's "Called Shot" (1932 World Series) | 59 |
| 10 | The Goat and the Hero: Johnny Pesky Holds the Ball as Enos Slaughter Scores (1946 World Series) | 66 |
| 11 | Starting for the Red Sox Is ... Denny Galehouse? (1948) | 73 |
| 12 | Bob Feller's Pickoff Play: Runner Caught Off Base, Ump Caught Off Guard (1948 World Series) | 80 |
| 13 | The Imperfect Game: Harvey Haddix Is Denied Immortality (1959) | 87 |
| 14 | Maris, Ruth, Frick, and the Asterisk: The Disputed Home-Run Record (1961) | 94 |
| 15 | The Speed Game: Was Lou Brock Out at Home? (1968 World Series) | 101 |
| 16 | Too Much Hustle? Pete Rose Flattens Ray Fosse (1970 All-Star Game) | 108 |
| 17 | Blind Justice: Ken Burkhart's Behind-the-Back Call (1970 World Series) | 115 |
| 18 | The Designated-Hitter Rule: A Move to Offense, or an Offensive Move? (1973) | 122 |
| 19 | No Interference? The Armbrister-Fisk Collision (1975 World Series) | 129 |
| 20 | A Flip of the Hip: Did Reggie Jackson Commit Interference? (1978 World Series) | 136 |
| 21 | A Half-Baked Idea Burns the Reds: Cincinnati and the 1981 Split Season | 143 |
| 22 | The Game That Refused to Die: The Great Pine-Tar Debate (1983) | 151 |
| 23 | Bad Time for a Bad Call: Don Denkinger's Infamous Safe-at-First Call (1985 World Series) | 158 |
| 24 | Wrestled Off the Bag: Drew Coble's Out Call (1991 World Series) | 165 |
| 25 | The Triple Play That Wasn't, and Other Gaffes of the 1992 World Series | 172 |
| Epilogue. Third Strike: The Aborted 1994 Season | 179 | |
| Bibliography | 189 | |
| Index | 191 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Dorothy D. Kocher
reviewed Baseball's Greatest Controversies: Rhubarbs, Hoaxes, Blown Calls, Ruthian Myths, Managers' Miscues & Front-Office Flops on March 13, 2012
Baseball's Greatest Controversies
This is a little book of humour, poking fun of library cataloguers – little stories, as well as cartoons.
I am a cataloguer and I suspect this will mostly appeal to cataloguers and maybe to librarians and library staff, in general. Overall, though, it was ok. Some were funny, others not as much. I read it over a couple of days, and maybe my mood made a difference, as I found things funnier in the second half of the book, on the second day I was reading it.
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