Baseball from the Broadcast Booth
So You Think You Know Baseball?
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So you think you know baseball? Test your knowledge of what the announcers are conveying when they are describing the game. "The pitcher is taking the mound", "making a call to the bullpen", "ducks on the pond", "he got it all", do you know what they are talking about? This book is all pictures describing these metaphors. Can you figure them out? The answers are in the back of the book with a brief description of what they mean.
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About the Book
Baseball from the Broadcast Booth is filled with baseball metaphors that various announcers have used throughout the years. Do you know what they all mean? If you think you know baseball, Lee Anderson invites you to test your knowledge of what announcers are conveying when they are calling a game. For instance, do you know the meaning of phrases like: · the pitcher is taking the mound; · ducks on the pond; · he got it all; · toe the rubber; · paint the corner; · he will turn and watch it fly. If you follow baseball, you no doubt know some of these phrases, but you may be surprised by how many you don’t know. Some of them, you may never have even heard of. Can you figure them out? Filled with pictures describing each metaphor, you’ll find the answers along with a short description of what each phrase means in the back of the book.
About the Author
Lee Anderson was born in 1945 and grew up on a farm in South Dakota, where he developed a love for baseball. His first bat was a board, and he would stand in front of his house and try to hit rocks over the corn crib. At age eleven, he moved to California, where he enjoyed watching the San Francisco Giants and his favorite player of all time, Willie Mays. In retirement he is an usher for the Oakland A's.