Silver Bats and Automobiles: The Hotly Competitive, Sometimes Ignoble Pursuit of the Major League Batting Championship (Paperback)

from hredwards

Sports. Something I'm really not all that interested in. But Mr. Fleitz made it interesting. I was not even aware there was such a thing as a batting award. He delves deep into the history of the sport of baseball and all the greats are mentioned here. And most of the time he keeps you guessing w...

from dleona

This book is Cracker Jack for the baseball fan filled with anecdotes of the often shady shenanigans of those directly and indirectly involved int he pursuit of the batting crown. A must read for anyone interested in baseball lore and history.

from chgstrom

I loved the stories in this book. I never realized how many times players sat out days, just in order to pad their batting averages. The stories were written well, and made me want to just keep reading. The only thing that would have made the book better is if the stories would have been in chron...

from egonzaba

As a midwestern boy, it seems expected that I would love this book, and I did indeed. Baseball's history in this short read is well documented and a sure page turner.

from bostonian71

As other reviewers mentioned, this book might have been better arranged by chronology rather than by theme ... I found that jumping back and forth in time made for choppy reading, and sometimes a bit of repetitiveness (for instance, two different chapters seemed to focus on hitters sitting out a ...