Flip Flop Fly Ball (Hardcover) by Craig Robinson, Rob Neyer

from Pferdina

I really enjoyed this book of graphics. Some were very clever, some were curiously interesting (like the outlines of the playing surface in each major league park), and a few were duds. Interspersed among them were short essays about the author's love of baseball that I also enjoyed.

from Mantra

This is a really cool book! From the essays of an Englishman who discovered baseball as an adult, became a real fan and his visits to numerous ballparks from the east coast to the west, to wonderful graphics displaying fascinating statistics such as percentage of baseball books that have a baseba...

from bane47

Flip Flop Fly Ball is a coffee-table sized book that is a combination of various graphs, charts and illustrations about the game of Major League Baseball, and the story of a British fan (the author) falling in love with the game and travelling to various major league parks. The graphics range fro...

from BlackjackNY

A fun, informative book with many well-researched and some somewhat obscure facts. While the infographics are a great deal of fun, I truly enjoyed reading about the author's journey from casual fan to stathead. The review would have been five stars, except for an unfortunately conjured Roger Clem...

from drebbles

Unlike many Americans who grow up either playing baseball or watching it or both, as a child, Craig Robinson, who grew up in England, didn't even know what baseball was. When he finally discovered baseball he fell in love with the sport. Because he didn't grow up with the sport, he tends to look ...