Description

With a Foreword by Roger Kahn, author of the legendary baseball book The Boys of Summer, here are words of wisdom and whimsey by players, managers, writers, and sportscasters, that will entertain and educate any baseball fan.

The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom unearths a treasury of quotes reflecting more than a century's worth of history from our national pastime. Featuring contributions from:

Hank Aaron
Walt Whitman
Leo Durocher
Ty Cobb
Ted Williams
Yogi Berra
John Updike
Dizzy Dean
Lou Gehrig
Casey Stengel
And many more!

Novelist W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe which became the movie Field of Dreams, wrote that baseball is "a game where little gems of wisdom or whimsy can be created in the dugout, the bullpen, or the press box during long, hot afternoons and evenings of baseball."