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Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball
by: Tim Kurkjian

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780312362249
ISBN: 0312362242
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Sales Rank: 17800
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin




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ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian has spent more than twenty-five years covering almost three thousand major league baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers, and executives.



            In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge, and deep love of the game, to create a book filled with some of the most fascinating insight into Major League Baseball this side of Jim Bouton’s bestseller, Ball Four. Whether he’s explaining what goes through a ballplayer’s mind when he faces a fastball in the chapter “My Face Was Crushed by a Bowling Ball Going 90 MPH,” detailing bizarre rituals and superstitions performed by baseball’s greatest players, or taking us into the locker room to see what transpires in the clubhouse of a major league team, Kurkjian’s tales are at times hilarious, other times horrifying, yet always entertaining.
            Kurkjian has spoken to some of the greatest ballplayers ever over the years, and they have revealed details about themselves and the game they love with a candor that readers won’t find anywhere else. Filled with anecdotes and fascinating insights, this is an essential book for baseball fans or anyone curious about America’s pastime.





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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One Of The Most Entertaining Baseball Books Ever
Tim Kurkjian had a name and face I recognized from a few appearances on ESPN but I really didn't know much about him until this book. Now, if I hear Kurkjian is going to be on shortly to talk baseball, I keep the channel where it is because I don't want to miss what he has to say. Suddenly, he was my favorite baseball commentator.

Not only is Kurkjian totally honest, but he's insightful, really knows the game, has a lot of common sense, and with this little kid-squeaky voice, he's fun to hear. There's only one thing better: this book, in which almost every page is entertaining, filled with short stories.

The more you love baseball, the more you'll enjoy this book and the author, who isn't afraid to say anything that pokes fun at himself, such as being such a statistics nerd. I mean, who else has clipped out all the boxscores of baseball games and kept them in a book for 30-plus years?
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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - OK
I like Tim Kurkjian. I listen to him on Mike & Mike in the Morning on ESPN radio. I see him on Baseball Tonight. He seems like an imminently likable guy. And, like another reviewer, I really wanted to like this book. I'd put off reading Game of Shadows until this summer and I thought, "What better book to read about the good side of baseball after reading about the, well, shadowy side of baseball of Barry Bonds and others cheating via steroids?"

That said, I tried three times to finish this book but just couldn't do it. The stories are just too rah-rah, sis-boom-bah for me.

Kurkjian clearly loves what he does and some of his stories are great. But others, whether they are true or not although I have no reason to doubt the gist of them, are just silly. For example, with a child's gleam Kurkjian goes on about how intensely competitive Cal Ripken, Jr. is; he's so competitive, in fact, ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Yes, it's a great game --and a terrific book--
This book was extremely enjoyable and I highly recommend it to any baseball fan. Kurkjian writes with passion and love for the game of baseball. His stories are delightful: from the player (I think Jay Bell)who never heard of Mickey Mantle to the kid who gets an autograph from "some guy Stan Musiel or something" to Cal Ripken's extreme competitiveness, you will laugh out loud. He also has a scary, but interesting chapter on hitters and pitchers who get hit by the baseball and how they react. I cannot recommend this too highly.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Baseball made fun
This is a great book. For those fans of Tim Kurkijan, you can't go wrong on this read. Bought it for my husband, not only did he enjoy it, but I did too. great wit and a real fun book.




 

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