Read Online Ripley Believe It or Not! Baseball Oddities Trivia Tim O'Brien John Graziano 9781893951297 Books

Product details Series Ripley's Believe It or Not! Paperback 120 pages Publisher Casa Flamingo LIterary Arts (January 1, 2008) Language English ISBN-10 9781893951297 ISBN-13 978-1893951297 ASIN 1893951294

Ripley Believe It or Not! Baseball Oddities Trivia Tim O'Brien John Graziano 9781893951297 Books Reviews

• Good!
• great stories
• Great info and little-known facts really enjoyed reading
• I enjoy reading baseball trivia. However, found four errors in this book and e-mailed the publisher. The publisher responded and said these would be corrected in the next edition.
• The first interesting fact contained in "Ripley's Believe It or Not! Baseball Oddities and Trivia" is that THE Robert Ripley actually was a big-league player - for the N.Y. Giants in 1914. Unfortunately, he broke his pitching arm during his debut, and it was back to the N.Y. Globe as a full-time sports illustrator. Three of my other favorites are
  
  1)It takes a baseball traveling 89.9 mph only 400 milliseconds to reach home plate!
  
  2)The smallest strike zone ever was only 1.5 inches when a 3'7" midget made an official appearance as a pinch hitter for the St. Louis Browns on August 19,1951. He walked on four straight pitches and was paid $100.
  
  3)The longest home run was hit by Lou Gehrig on April 3, 1929 - over 600' from home plate.