Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?: And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Baseball
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Paul Aron
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Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?
"Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo." --John Thorn, editor of Total Baseball
"Paul Aron puts a distant replay on the most famous controversies in baseball history. This is more fun than if he'd been there with a camcorder." --Allen Barra, author of Clearing the Bases and Brushbacks and Knockdowns
"Paul Aron has hit a home run for baseball fans. He dissects the evidence on baseball's 28 most charming mysteries. The result is a well-written, enjoyable, enlightening tour of the last hundred years of baseball history." --Andrew Zimbalist, author of Baseball and Billions
"Paul Aron's book on elements of baseball is both wise and fun, illuminating and entertaining." --Robert Adair, author of The Physics of Baseball
"The essential last word for every fan who loves to debate baseball fact and fiction."
--Michael Shapiro, author of The Last Good Season
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Book details
- Author
- Paul Aron
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 232
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Sports & Recreation › Baseball › History
- Topics
- baseball history · baseball controversies · sports history · baseball legends · historical debates
- ISBN-13
- 9780471482048 (Paperback)9781620456095 (Hardcover)
About the author
PAUL ARON is a writer, editor, and journalist and the author of more than five books, including Founding Feuds: The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation, Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot? And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Baseball and More Unsolved Mysteries of American History.
Aron received prizes for news and feature writing from the Virginia Press Association and Chesapeake Publishing. He has served as director of publications and senior editor at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, executive editor at Simon & Schuster, and reporter for The Virginia Gazette.
Paul lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.