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In this collection of baseball's funniest quips, zingers, and malapropisms, players coaches, owners, umpires, and celebrity fans sound off about the national pastime. Baseball Shorts includes the humor of over a century of baseball, and all the game's legendary characters and current superstars are featuredYogi Berra, Casey Stengel, Tommy Lasorda, Mickey Mantle, Phil Rizzuto, Deion Sanders, Rickey Henderson, Lenny Dykstra, and others. Hall of Famers as well as modern-day wisecrackers, from Ralph Kiner ("All the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodgers Stadium") to Charlie Hough ("When I broke in, they didn't have batswe just grabbed the branch off a tree") to Larry Andersen ("If a guy is a good fastball hitter, does that mean I should throw him a bad fastball?), are included. Baseball fans of all generations will applaud the wit of Bob Uecker, Joe Garagiola, Sparky Anderson, and hundreds more in this witty and entertaining collection of one-liners.Liebman, Glenn is the author of 'Baseball Shorts 1,000 Of the Game's Funniest One-Liners' with ISBN 9780809236442 and ISBN 0809236443.
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