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What if a few dozen of the best storytellers in the world wrote about the game they loved? Answer: You'd get a splendid book! The similarities between young road comics and young baseball players are many, and you'll find some terrific behind-the-scenes stories here about when the two worlds intersected. This one-of-a-kind book contains both the hysterical and the poignant. You can read straight-up jokes and touching personal memories. You'll visit the ballyards and the comedy showrooms. There is also a big scoop of baseball history. It's everything baseball through the eyes of top nightclub and TV comedians. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll want a hot dog and beer from the concession stand. Over 40 professional stand-up comics contributed stories to Comedians Talking Baseball. Collectively, they played most every comedy club in America and throughout the English-speaking world during stand-up's Golden Age of the 1980s and 90s. These guys and gals did sets on all the major television shows. The writers of these stories have won numerous Emmy Awards. They've written screenplays and stage plays and penned scripts for TV shows that range from Seinfeld to King of the Hill to Rugrats. There are joke writers for Letterman and Leno and Saturday Night Live. In these enjoyable pages, they all turn their complete attention to baseball.

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Mike Vance is the author of fourteen non-fiction books on Texas history, sports, and comedy, and four historical fiction novels. He has written, produced and directed eight feature length Texas history documentaries and over 150 short educational Texas history films. He also does the wildly irreverent American history podcast Prick the Balloon. Before his writing career, Vance spent 20 years as a professional stand-up comedian and musician before working on-air in radio and television. Mike has taught Houston and Texas history at Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies for more than a decade.

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