Review of "More Strange But True Baseball Stories," by Howard Liss

Review of

More Strange But True Baseball Stories, by Howard Liss

Three out of five stars

 Most of the short stories in this collection hardly rise to the level of strange. The game has been played professionally for approximately 1.5 centuries, giving it plenty of time for very unusual events to occur. All that is necessary is to get on the internet and you can view some truly bizarre events. Most of which top all the situations chronicled in this book.

 There is the famous event of Ted Williams refusing to sit down the last day of the season in order to preserve his 0.400 batting average, the last great game played by Babe Ruth, the year “Old Hoss” Radbourne won sixty games and the performance of Pepper Martin in the World Series of his rookie season. None of these events reach the level of what the normal person would consider “strange.”

 The stories are written at the level of the young adult and are a lesson in the history of the great game of baseball, so the failure of this book is based on the poor use of a term and not the content.