This is an actual book
Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 2:11 am by SJK
On the surface, baseball looks like such an easy game--you throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball, and you run around the bases--but there are so many beautiful and hidden facets to the diamond. If anyone knows the game's on-field secrets, it's Tim McCarver. He caught in the Majors for 21 seasons, handling such Hall of Fame hurlers as Bob Gibson and Steve Carlton. Since hanging up his spikes almost two decades ago, he's been one of the game's most visible, thoughtful, and instructive analysts.
Chapters include:
1. NFL Quarterbacks Know How to Slide Better Than Baseball Players
2. Make Routine Plays Spectacularly, But Not Spectacular Plays Routinely
3. Batting Titles and Robinson Cano
Tags: buck & mccarver, game 109, mediot
Umm..I read this book 10 years ago. It’s a brilliant book. Seriously. It’s like mocking Baseball Between the Numbers.
“the gray’s anatomy of baseball”
henry gray’s estate should sue business week for slander.
Item #3 made me laugh out loud several times.
See that other name down there? It means old Timmy didn’t write it.
I predict that Robinson Cano will win three battles titles before he retires.
Greatest.Book.Ever.
This is also real: http://www.amazon.com/McCarver-Sings-Selections-American-Songbook/dp/B002OJGGH6
His next book will be titled “How to make Baseball unwatchable”. Chapters will include:
-’Beating minor points into the ground for multiple innings’
-’The Yankees and the 3rd Reich’
-’Why minutia matters’
I think Cano is a shoe-in for ROY one of these yrs…
Trying to hit a slider off of Dennis Eckersley is like trying to put a button through a newly starched button hole.
Trying to hit a knuckle ball is like trying to swat a fly with an open umbrella.
Don’t forget: “Laughing before Joe Buck finishes his ‘joke’ is what earns me my paycheck.”
And now that I type that, “Joe Buck” shortens quite conveniently to “Joe-ck”. Karma.
@ Sean L
This is the most awesome link ever…. Tim McCarver lol
Nice comments by McCarver about Dustin Pedroia. Now there’s a gritty ballplayer who hustles! Did I mention grit and hustle?
I don’t like these anti-Irish comments! I’m offended! BAN! BAN!
You ever notice how when I mention any Yankee player, I mention how much money they make, but I never do that with any other player? Timmy never gets tired of that, even though he is a former ball player who barely made any money. I thought, one time, that he wanted to punch me, but it turns out he ate a bad clam.
I’m with Brawndo on this one… 743,992,832.1931 points to Sean L for his link to the McCarver Album. That was more entertaining that the orignal post idea. Bravo.
I’m sure this is a good book, BUT…. Kevin Kennedy’s “Twice Around the Bases” is the best !!!
The sad part about this is… you’ll hear his play-by-play and thank the good lord MLB ’10 (or any other year) has other sportscasters (or that you have the wherewithal to make yourself deaf if you REALLY want to). And then you may read the book and think “Hey, this isn’t bad.” And that’s because Timmy Mac didn’t write the damn thing. Probably not one page of it. He sat giving dictation to a couple schmoes, among them a solid baseball guy and an impeccable writer. And that’s how celebrity books go down. Idiots dictating to schmoes, and schmoes making the idiots’ books look better.