Extra Innings Baseball, from the popular Armchair Digest series, delivers an eye-opening and amusing look at America's pastime. Through hundreds of entertaining anecdotes, incredible stories, memorable moments, witty quotes, and fascinating facts, this lively book pays tribute to baseball's long history and rich traditions. Extra Innings Baseball is like a ticket to the ballpark, with accounts of the most bizarre games and profiles of the greatest and most infamous players. Among many other things, you'll learn all about: • Little League stars who made it big • How eating eels kept Lou Gehrig's Yankees on a winning streak • The most lopsided trades in MLB history • The scrappiest on-field brawls • Baseball's biggest blunders and bloopers • The teams that earned the dubious honor of "worst of all time" If you delight in baseball's colorful stories, it's time to play ball with one of the most entertaining compendiums on the game available.