Zack Hample. (2011). The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Zack Hample. 2011. The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Zack Hample, The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

Zack Hample. The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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   • bioText: Zack Hample has written three books about baseball and has appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows. He has snagged more than 4,600 baseballs from 48 different major league stadiums.  Hample runs a business called "Watch With Zack" and has a popular blog, The Baseball Collector, chronicling his obsession.
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The Baseball is a salute to the ball, filled with insider trivia, anecdotes, and generations of ball-induced insanity—from Zack Hample, the bestselling author of Watching Baseball Smarter

• Which Hall of Famer once caught a ball dropped from an airplane?
• Why do balls get stamped with invisible ink?        
• What’s the best ticket to buy for catching a foul ball?
• Which part of the ball once came from dog food companies?
• How could a 10,000-year-old glacier help a pitcher grip the ball?
 
In this enlightening, entertaining, and often wildly funny book, Zack Hample shares ballpark legends and lore, explores the history of the baseball souvenir craze, and also details the evolution of the ball. Finally, Hample—who has snagged more than 4,600 balls from 48 different major league stadiums—offers up his secret methods for snagging your own ball from major league games.
 
Features a ballhawk glossary, profiles of legendary ballhawks, top 10 lists, and black-and-white photos throughout.

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   • source: Keith Hernandez
   • content: "Insightful, engaging and funny--a treat for anyone who loves the game."
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   • source: Yankees Magazine
   • content: "Hample calls himself an obsessed fan--obsessed in a good way--and the product of his torment is a funny and informative guide for all levels of fams."
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   • source: Fortune
   • content: "Engaging. . . . Hample's book is both deceptive in its simplicity . . . and surprising in its range."
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   • source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
   • content: "A browser's delight of a book. . . . Hample unloads a zany collection of baseball trivia, insights and 'random stuff'. . . in breezy guidebook style."
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   • source: Craig Smith, The Seattle Times
   • content: "This isn't the first book to take on the challenge of explaining baseball intricacies, but I've never seen it done better."
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   • source: Maxim
   • content: "Armed at neophytes and know-it-alls alike, this baseball geekfest tells you which positions are never played by lefties, why it's easier to hit when bases are loaded, which rules are the weirdest, and other arcana."
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     January 15, 2011
     

     A baseball book by an obsessive for other obsessives.

     The latest by self-proclaimed "ballhawk" Hample (Watching Baseball Smarter, 2007) brings a whole new dimension to the term "inside baseball." In contrast to the countless other books celebrating the sport, this one focuses on the ball itself—its history, production, place in popular culture, desirability as a collectible and pretty much anything else that the author has been able to dig up concerning the sphere. Because Hample is plainly a resourceful sort ("Since 1990 I've snagged 4,578 baseballs at forty-eight different major league stadiums"), he provides plenty of revelations to even the most passionate follower of the game. This isn't a book to read for any literary quality but for its myriad factoids and tips. The narrative is divided into three parts, with the anecdotes about famous incidents involving the ball, memorable souvenirs and the ball's appearance in movies and TV of most interest to the general reader. The second part delves deep into the evolution of the baseball (nearly 70 pages, almost year by year), detailing the switch from high-quality horsehide from Belgium to cheaper domestic fare (1942) and from Spalding to Rawlings (1977, when "home runs increased by a whopping 63 percent"). The third section, "How to Snag Major League Baseballs," offers advice on when to arrive (early), what to wear (visiting team's garb might earn a reward from one of its players), how to act (persistent but polite) and what to bring (glove).

     Not the type of book to read in one setting, but its information could fill many seasons of baseball broadcasts.

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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     March 1, 2011
     This is the stuff baseball fans eat up like snack food, only its way more nourishing. Hample, author of Watching Baseball Smarter (2007) and ball-snagger extraordinairehe has amassed 4,600 balls, mainly by catching home runs and foul balls hit in batting practice and during games at parks across the countryhere discourses on the baseball itself: its manufacturing evolution, the highest prices single balls have fetched (tops? $3.005 million for Mark McGwires seventieth homer during the 1998 season), famous foul-ball catches (e.g., by Jimmy Carter in 1996), and brilliant and detailed strategies for snagging a ball at a game, among many other related topics. The stories are marvelous, and throughout Hample maintains jaunty good humor and even class; for instance, he thanks, by name, every one of the 1,167 Major League players and coaches who have given him baseballs over the years (an interesting list in itself). Lots of fascinating illustrations, too.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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     January 15, 2011
     

     A baseball book by an obsessive for other obsessives.

     The latest by self-proclaimed "ballhawk" Hample (Watching Baseball Smarter, 2007) brings a whole new dimension to the term "inside baseball." In contrast to the countless other books celebrating the sport, this one focuses on the ball itself--its history, production, place in popular culture, desirability as a collectible and pretty much anything else that the author has been able to dig up concerning the sphere. Because Hample is plainly a resourceful sort ("Since 1990 I've snagged 4,578 baseballs at forty-eight different major league stadiums"), he provides plenty of revelations to even the most passionate follower of the game. This isn't a book to read for any literary quality but for its myriad factoids and tips. The narrative is divided into three parts, with the anecdotes about famous incidents involving the ball, memorable souvenirs and the ball's appearance in movies and TV of most interest to the general reader. The second part delves deep into the evolution of the baseball (nearly 70 pages, almost year by year), detailing the switch from high-quality horsehide from Belgium to cheaper domestic fare (1942) and from Spalding to Rawlings (1977, when "home runs increased by a whopping 63 percent"). The third section, "How to Snag Major League Baseballs," offers advice on when to arrive (early), what to wear (visiting team's garb might earn a reward from one of its players), how to act (persistent but polite) and what to bring (glove).

     Not the type of book to read in one setting, but its information could fill many seasons of baseball broadcasts.

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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• Which Hall of Famer once caught a ball dropped from an airplane?
• Why do balls get stamped with invisible ink?        
• What’s the best ticket to buy for catching a foul ball?
• Which part of the ball once came from dog food companies?
• How could a 10,000-year-old glacier help a pitcher grip the ball?
 
In this enlightening, entertaining, and often wildly funny book, Zack Hample shares ballpark legends and lore, explores the history of the baseball souvenir craze, and also details the evolution of the ball. Finally, Hample—who has snagged more than 4,600 balls from 48 different major league...

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