The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy - Softcover

Bondy, Filip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476777187 ISBN 13: 9781476777184

Verlag: Scribner, 2016

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"In The Pine Tar Game Filip Bondy conjures a seminal moment in baseball history when what passed for controversy was more keystone cops than congressional investigation and illicit substances were sticky rather than addictive. The book is a delightful romp guaranteed to make a baseball lover pine for a more innocent time full of bluster and pique."
--Jane Leavy, New York Times bestselling author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy

"Bondy successfully explores the personalities of those involved in the adventure and its aftermath...entertaining."
--Bill Littlefield, NPR

"An improbably rich and entertaining tale...this one could find a lot of readers."
--Booklist

"In his smart, whimsical New York Daily News columns, Filip Bondy has long projected a big-city voice along with a healthy appreciation and sympathy for small-market challengers. He does it again in The Pine Tar Game, with a richly reported and written account of the Yankees-Royals rivalry that gave us memorable characters and zany circumstances. Bondy was there. With his book, you will be, too."
--Harvey Araton, author of Driving Mr. Yogi

"A sticky moment milked for all its nutty, head-shaking glory." --Sports Illustrated

"Filip Bondy craftily tells the story behind the notorious Pine Tar Game...a clever look into the characters that made up the short-lived but angry rivalry between the revived Yankees of the late '70s and early '80s and the burgeoning Kansas City Royals of that same period." --Providence Journal

"A rollicking account of a clutch home run, a marvelous temper tantrum, and an inning that took almost a month to complete...Even those who know [the ins and outs of the story] find something new in The Pine Tar Game...Depict[s] the odd purgatory into which the game itself was plunged, and the sense that just about anyone might become involved in the saga."
--The Kansas City Star

"[Bondy] writes with a keen eye for character, giving us masterful sketches of Brett, Martin, team owners Ewing Kauffman and George Steinbrenner, and others."
--Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe

"Bondy's book fills in all the details I missed, ignored or forgot in all the retellings...[He] weaves together the Yankees' tradition, swagger and dysfunction with tales of Charlie Finley, Rush Limbaugh, Gaylord Perry, and David Cone to thoroughly document the conditions that led Brett to make his infamous sprint to home."
--Wichita Eagle

"Long before pro football's Deflategate controversy over the inflation level of game balls, baseball had an equally mole hill-turned-mountain brouhaha. . . . Filip Bondy witnessed it all as a young sports writer, and now uses this bizarre episode to examine the larger narrative of shifting values in baseball and to rewind the rivalry between the mighty pinstripers and the small-town Royals."
--Christian Science Monitor

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The award-winning Daily News sportswriter explores the dramatic events of the 1983 four-game series between the Yankees and the Royals, recounting the obscure and overturned rulings and illegal usages that shaped the competition.

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• Verlag: Scribner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1476777187
• ISBN 13: 9781476777184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272