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MISFITS! Baseball's Worst Ever Team |
By J. Thomas Hetrick |
ISBN: 978-1-929763-00-9
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Price: $17.95 |
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MISFITS! Baseball's Worst Ever Team is the tragicomic story of the hapless, hopeless 1899
Cleveland
Spiders. Discover baseball's all-time single season futility leaders and winners of but 20 of 154 games
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year. Meet some of the most colorful characters ever to wear major league uniforms. Follow their
hysterical
train-travel odyssey through the National League and straight into historical obscurity. So pathetic were
these Spiders that on the season's final day, a cigar store clerk became their starting pitcher. Wondrous
anecdotes abound. Baseball fans will laugh out loud! Book featured in 1999 Cleveland Indians
Yearbook.
Contains illustrations, appendices, sordid statistics, bibliography, and index.
MISFITS! Baseball's Worst Ever Team is also available as an ebook on Amazon.com for the Kindle. J. Thomas Hetrick is also
the
author of the Seymour Medal finalist Chris Von der Ahe and the St. Louis Browns. |
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Reviewed Appeared In: Blurbs |
Reviewed By: Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Diamond Angle, The Cooperstown Review |
Text Of Review: How did they get so bad? And once they got there, how did they manage to make it through an entire season without committing mass suicide? Exhaustively detailed. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Marx Brothers in cleats. James Floto in The Diamond Angle
Hetrick deserves a standing ovation for this meticulous research. The Cooperstown Review
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