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…..this book is to baseball and baseball cards. Nothing to do? Ballgame rained out? Friends out of town? Start reading this book. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard of any of the players profiled – if you love baseball and all of its attendant baggage, fallacies, and foibles, you will enjoy this book. It perfectly captures that almost forgotten age when baseball cards were more valuable to young boys than, well, just about anything on the planet.Classic? Controversial? This book became almost NOTORIOUS in its day – something you would almost have to sneak off and read away from parental supervision. While downright tame by today’s cut-and-run journalistic standards, the purple prose contained within could only have been dreamed up by a collaboration between HL Mencken, Don Rickles, and Jim Bouton (referred to as a “big mouth” on page 100 – talk about the pot calling the kettle black). The authors do show respect and admiration for some of their personal favorites, but otherwise



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