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Dan Schlossberg
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Baseball Bits:
The Best Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Dugout to the Outfield
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“There are so many great stories in this book.
Baseball Bits really brings back
memories."
—Brooks Robinson,
Hall of Fame third baseman |
“A literary home run!”
—Ferguson Jenkins,
Hall of Fame |
FROM THE PAGES
OF BASEBALL BITS:
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Since Derek Jeter dated Mariah Carey, she had 13 hits—and he had more than
1,800
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George (Doc) Medich, a pro baseball player and med student, once jumped into
the Baltimore stands before a game to save the life of a fan stricken by a
heart attack
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Ken Griffey and son Ken Griffey Jr. were the only father-and-son tandem to
hit back-to-back home runs
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The 2007 Texas Rangers were the only team in the 20th or 21st century to
score 30 runs in a game
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Warren Spahn retired with 363 wins and 363 base-hits
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Dale Murphy and Roger Maris were the only men with consecutive MVP
awards excluded from the Hall of Fame
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J.D. Drew is the only man to participate in a four-straight-homer inning
with two different teams
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Catfish Hunter once signed a seven-figure contract with a 10-cent pen
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Phil and Joe Niekro won more games than any other fraternal pitching tandem
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The bat Ron Blomberg used as the first DH is the only one that went
to Cooperstown because of a walk
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