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"The author has more than doubled the number of hardball lines, quips, quibbles, exclamations and sagacious sallies (4,271 versus 2,023) from the well reviewed earlier edition, which featured a ""good index"" (ARBA), as it does again. From the historical to the hysterical, Hall of Fame legends to long-forgotten bench jockies, this work compiles the best lines from the entire spectrum of baseball. Quotations are arranged under several dozen topics, from ""Aging Gracefully"" to ""Yogi-isms"" (and include the straightforward, like ""Base Running"" or ""Home Runs,"" to the more fanciful, like ""Anger Management"" and ""Looks Aren't Everything""). Detailed ascriptions for each quotation provide context and elaboration. Thorough name and narrow subject indexes allow for easy access."

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I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of a soft drink. - Joe Dimaggio. Highly amusing and entertaining reading...this work has certainly earned its place on sports reference shelves...exhaustively researched - Reference Reviews; brings together some of the best lines from the whole field of baseball - Public Library Quarterly; a useful addition - Choice; include[s] the most famous quotes about the game and the most colorful characters in it - ARBA; the ultimate baseball quotations collection - Elysian Fields Quarterly; the best quips and observations on the grand old game in the past hundred years - USA Today Sports Weekly; twice the number of quotations from his earlier edition - The SABR Bulletin; detailed ascriptions for each quote provide context and elaboration - Sports Collectors Digest.

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