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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends : The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else by Neyer, Rob is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>The latest and greatest in ESPN.com baseball guru Rob Neyer's Big Book series, <i>Legends</i> is a highly entertaining guide to baseball fables that have been handed down through generations.<br> </b> </p> <p>The well-told baseball story has long been a staple for baseball fans. In <i>Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends</i>, Neyer breathes new life into both classic and obscure stories throughout twentieth-century baseball — stories that, while engaging on their own, also tell us fascinating things about their main characters and about the sport's incredibly rich history. With his signature style, Rob gets to the heart of every anecdote, working through the particulars with careful research drawn from a variety of primary sources. For each story, he asks: Did this really happen? Did it happen, sort of? Or was the story simply the wild invention of someone's imagination? Among the scores of legends Neyer questions and investigates...</p> <ul> <li>Did an errant Bob Feller pitch really destroy the career of a National League All-Star?</li> <li>Did Greg Maddux mean to give up a long blast to Jeff Bagwell?</li> <li>Was Fred Lynn the clutch player he thinks he was?</li> <li>Di
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Neyer, Rob
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743284905
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sports, Anthropology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (214 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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