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Informationen zum Autor John G. Robertson is a private tutor and sports historian who lives in Cambridge, Ontario. He is the author of numerous books on baseball, hockey and boxing history. Klappentext To the uninitiated! baseball is a simple sport: the pitcher throws the ball! the hitter tries to hit it! and the fielders try to catch it. But what happens before! during and after those basic actions causes more arguments than can be found in any other sport. Most of these disputes are settled quickly; a few survive for generations! still able to spark heated debate decades later. Did Babe Ruth call his home run in the 1932 World Series? Was "Shoeless” Joe Jackson a victim or a perpetrator of the Black Sox Scandal? These and 24 other of the game's most heated controversies are analysed in this work. Zusammenfassung To the uninitiated! baseball is a simple sport: the pitcher throws the ball! the hitter tries to hit it! and the fielders try to catch it. But what happens before! during and after those basic actions causes more arguments than can be found in any other sport. Most of these disputes are settled quickly; a few survive for generations! still able to spark heated debate decades later.
