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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball His

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BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan...but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the bases (and laughing). Without these moments, the highlight reels wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Baseball blunders, however, can be tragic, and they will leave diehard fans asking why...why...why? Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders does its best to answer all those whys, exploring the worst decisions and stupidest moments of managers, general managers, owners, and even commissioners. As he did in his Big Book of Baseball Lineups, Rob Neyer provides readers with a fascinating examination of baseball's rich history, this time through the lens of the game's sometimes hilarious, often depressing, and always perplexing blunders. · Which ill-fated move cost the Chicago White Sox a great hitter and the 1919 World Series? · What was Babe Ruth thinking when he became the first (and still the only) player to end a World Series by getting caught trying to steal? · Did playing one-armed Pete Gray in 1945 cost the Browns a pennant? · How did winning a coin toss lead to the Dodgers losing the National League pennant on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'round the World"? · How damaging was the Frank Robinson-for-Milt Pappas deal, really? · Which of Red Sox manager Don Zimmer's mistakes in 1978 was the worst? · Which Yankees trade was even worse than swapping Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps? · What non-move cost Buck Showalter a job and gave Joe Torre the opportunity of a lifetime? · Game 7, 2003 ALCS: Pedro winds up to throw his 123rd pitch...what were you thinking? These are just a few of the legendary (and not-so-legendary) blunders that Neyer analyzes, always with an eye on what happened, why it happened, and how it changed the fickle course of history. And in separate chapters, Neyer also reviews some of the game's worst trades and draft picks and closely examines all the teams that fell just short of first place. Another in the series of Neyer's Big Books of baseball history, Baseball Blunders should win a place in every devoted fan's library.… (mer)

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JNSelko | May 11, 2010 |

What is a blunder? For the purpose of this book it is not just the bobble on the field, but the decision behind the scene. Should I have pinch hit for him? What about a defensive replacement?

Part of the fun of talking baseball is in the memories. Do you remember when...? When your team does well, the memories can be wonderful. When your team does poorly, the memories can be downright painful! Either way as time passes good memories grow grandly in the telling. So do how awful the bad memories really were.

The author looks into some of baseball's legendary blunders using the usual statistics but also some newer ones. Win shares? They represent an effort to sum a player's total value to his team, including, hitting, pitching, fielding, and base stealing. Three win shares equal one win the player would have increased your teams bottom line. Get that? You will!

But the book is mostly recalling some of the games most famous (and infamous!) happenings. Were the most one sided trades really that bad? And were they made by major errors in judgment, or was there more to tell? Statistics play a part for sure. But more important are the behind the scenes reasons that the moves were made.

If you are a baseball fan interested in the history of the game this book is for you. I knew about many of the events portrayed in the book. But the circumstances surrounding the events were truly enlightening. I'll look a little differently at them in the future. (

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iluvvideo | Apr 3, 2010 |

The first of the two books of baseball stories by Neyer, this one focuses on the mistakes and miscues made, not by the players themselves, but by managers and the front office that left the players in those positions. Neyer's stance is that anyone can make a mistake that proves costly on the field, but a true blunder is one where there was a decision made that went wrong where the decision-maker (I can't say "decider" anymore without laughing) should have known better.

Most of the stories are interesting, and a few were obscure, although I knew more of these stories than the ones in his later book on baseball legends. The blunders are really just the flip side of the legends; both of them together constitute the fabric that really makes the sport so rich. He treats them similarly to the previous book, too: he examines the blunders to see just how bad they were. In some cases, they were as bad as they looked, and in others, they turned out not to be all that detrimental. The analytic approach to the stories works well, particularly since you get the story first to enjoy, and then learn about the impact.

All in all, I enjoyed the Baseball Legends collection more, but this one is also quite good. I'd start with the other one, though. (

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BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan...but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the bases (and laughing). Without these moments, the highlight reels wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Baseball blunders, however, can be tragic, and they will leave diehard fans asking why...why...why? Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders does its best to answer all those whys, exploring the worst decisions and stupidest moments of managers, general managers, owners, and even commissioners. As he did in his Big Book of Baseball Lineups, Rob Neyer provides readers with a fascinating examination of baseball's rich history, this time through the lens of the game's sometimes hilarious, often depressing, and always perplexing blunders. · Which ill-fated move cost the Chicago White Sox a great hitter and the 1919 World Series? · What was Babe Ruth thinking when he became the first (and still the only) player to end a World Series by getting caught trying to steal? · Did playing one-armed Pete Gray in 1945 cost the Browns a pennant? · How did winning a coin toss lead to the Dodgers losing the National League pennant on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'round the World"? · How damaging was the Frank Robinson-for-Milt Pappas deal, really? · Which of Red Sox manager Don Zimmer's mistakes in 1978 was the worst? · Which Yankees trade was even worse than swapping Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps? · What non-move cost Buck Showalter a job and gave Joe Torre the opportunity of a lifetime? · Game 7, 2003 ALCS: Pedro winds up to throw his 123rd pitch...what were you thinking? These are just a few of the legendary (and not-so-legendary) blunders that Neyer analyzes, always with an eye on what happened, why it happened, and how it changed the fickle course of history. And in separate chapters, Neyer also reviews some of the game's worst trades and draft picks and closely examines all the teams that fell just short of first place. Another in the series of Neyer's Big Books of baseball history, Baseball Blunders should win a place in every devoted fan's library.

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