Research Catalog

Title

Who's on worst? : the lousiest players, biggest cheaters, saddest goats and other antiheroes in baseball history / Filip Bondy.

Author

Bondy, Filip.

Publication

New York : Doubleday, 2013.

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Details

Description

x, 252 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun. From a delightful survey of batters who fell below the dreaded "Mendoza Line" to a rundown of managers who had long careers distinguished by relentless losing to a roster of players who took steroids but still stunk, Who's on Worst? is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of the personalities who deserve their place in baseball history as much as the immortals"--

Subject

• Baseball > Miscellanea
• SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General
• SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
• SPORTS & RECREATION / General

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Mendoza line: The worst hitter of all time -- Hobson's disease: The worst fields of all time -- Lima time!: The worst pitchers of all time -- $23,000,097 per win: Most overpaid Yankees -- Too fat to bat: Most overpaid, outside the Bronx -- What's an emery board?: The biggest cheaters of all time -- Number 1/8: The oddest ballplayers of all time -- Bonehead: The greatest goats of all time -- Anyone seen my mitt?: The worst teammates ever -- Evsteroidsods didn't help: The most pathetic juiceheads of all time -- The shoe-shine pitch: The luckiest players of all time -- When a rose is not a rose: Sons and brothers who didn't cut it -- The phold: The worst managers ever -- Do as I say, not as I play: The lousiest players turned geniuses -- Beyond the boss: The worst owners of all time.

ISBN

• 9780385536127 (hardback)
• 0385536127 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2012028623

OCLC

• 798058885
• SCSB-12172533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library