The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without

Baseball history is full of unforgettable athletic acheivements, heroic performers, and exhilirating moments that remind fans of everything they love about sports and honest competition. The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without is NOT about any of those things.

 

Instead, author Robert Schnakenberg takes you through a decidedly snarky trip through the game's rich history of buffoonery, thuggery, fashion missteps, ballpark promotions gone awry, batboys with metals claws for hands, afros, mustaches, mistreses, overzealous mascots, existence-of-dinosaurs deniers, indelible baseball-themed candy bars, and hundreds of other unbelievable-but-true aspects of America's national pastime. And did we mention the wife swapping?

 

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Baseball history is full of unforgettable athletic achievements, heroic performers, and exhilarating moments that remind fans of everything they love about sports and honest competition. The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia is NOT about any of those things. Take a decidedly snarky trip through the history of America's pastime-a land of overzealous mascots, bad moustaches, ballpark promotions gone awry, and inedible candy bars. And did we mention the wife swapping? Thousands of sports fans have already enjoyed their physical copy of The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia this summer. But now you can carry a digital copy of the book with you thanks to our new iPhone app that will provide hours of entertainment. You can check out an online preview of the app, or this link will take you its page in the iTunes store. More information about The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia is available on its official page.

"The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia" Press Release

 

Baseball history is full of unforgettable athletic acheivements, heroic performers, and exhilirating moments that remind fans of everything they love about sports and honest competition.

 

The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without is NOT about any of those things.

 

Instead, author Robert Schnakenberg takes you through a decidedly snarky trip through the game's rich history of buffoonery, thuggery, fashion missteps, ballpark promotions gone awry, batboys with metals claws for hands, afros, mustaches, mistreses, overzealous mascots, existence-of-dinosaurs deniers, indelible baseball-themed candy bars, and hundreds of other unbelievable-but-true aspects of America's national pastime. And did we mention the wife swapping?

 

Some of the burning questions that The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia answers include:

 

• When was the eephus pitch invented?
• How big was Oscar Gamble's afro?
• Who were Arnie the Peanut Dude or Wally the Beer Man?
• What MLB players have appeared on The Simpsons?
• Who was the House of David and what league did they form an alliance with?

 

For the casual fan, hard-core stat geek, pop culture junkie, or lover of trivia and miscellany, The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia turns the traditional baseball reference book on its head and gives the game a good, stiff kick in its baggy flannel pants.

 

About the Author:
Robert Schnakenberg is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the author of numerous books of irreverent nonfiction, including Distory: A Treasury of Historical Insults, The Encyclopedia Shaternica, and Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and can be found online at www.robertschnakenberg.com

 

Contact: Josh Williams, Triumph Books, 312.252-1261, j.williams@triumphbooks.com

 

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