The Psycho 100: Baseball's Most Outrageous Moments

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Steve "Psycho" Lyons has done it all. As a player he played for two of the most storied franchises in Major League Baseball history -the Red Sox and the White Sox- and as a baseball analyst, he's a national Emmy Award winner, proving that he's as comfortable playing tic-tac-toe in the dirt with Wally Joyner as he is calling national games for Major League Baseball from the broadcast booth.

The Psycho 100 invites readers to argue his rankings, and to debate the issues.  Diving headfirst into the wacky and heroic adventures of baseball history, this book captures it all for the true baseball fan. First there were baseball cards and some glorious statistics on their backs. Then along came the Elias Sports Bureau and a wealth of statistics. Fantasy baseball rocked the baseball world in the 1990s and fans became armchair GMs. Now, for the first time, the untapped world of wacky, heroic, poignant, and unbelievable moments are all ranked on the "PsychoMeter" by Psycho himself, Steve "Psycho" Lyons.

Baseball's Most Outrageous Moments

By Steve "Psycho" Lyons with Burton Rocks

"Every time I see Psycho, I have to remind him to keep his pants on."

- Manny Ramirez

When prime The Psycho 100 candidate and ultimate character Manny Ramirez is giving you advice, you know rank high on the "Psycho Meter." Such is the case for broadcaster and former Major Leaguer Steve "Psycho" Lyons.

In The Psycho 100: Baseball's Most Outrageous Moments, Steve uses his patented Psycho-Meter to break down the 100 most famous and infamous moments in baseball history. And who better to chronicle baseball's history of outrageous personalities, plays, and pranks, than Lyons, the man who dropped his pants at first base and created perhaps the most outrageous moment of all time?

Digging in and dusting off the annals of baseball history, he has researched the craziest moments in baseball ever, ranging from the hilarious to the ridiculous, from the incredible to the heroic, including:

* Randy Johnson's unexpected and unbelieveable exploding bird
* Clemens v. Piazza, rounds 1 and 2
* The infamous Disco Demolition Night in Chicago
* The George Brett pine tar incident and his berserk reaction to the accusation

From Babe Ruth's called home-run shot to the Steve Bartman fiasco, from Pete Rose bowling over Ray Fosse to Joba Chamberlain being attacked by insects, and from Pedro Martinez body slamming Don Zimmer to a team turning a triple play without ever touching the ball, The Psycho 100 has it all.

About the Authors

Steve Lyons played Major League Baseball for nine years and is a three-time Emmy award-winning analyst. He is currently a broadcaster with the Los Angeles Dodgers after working at Fox Sports for 11 years, where he covered the World Series, hosted the interview show Rewind, and anchored FSN's National Sports Report. He has also hosted radio shows based in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and is the author of PSYCHOanalysis. A single father of three daughters and a proud grandfather, he currently resides in Southern California.

Burton Rocks is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir, about Yankees great Paul O'Neill and his father. A third-generation author, Rocks has published eight books and co-wrote Billy Wagner's exclusive 2006 playoff column for the New York Post. A graduate of Stony Brook University School of Law, he owns his own boutique sports agency, Burton Rocks LTD.

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