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Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure (2011)

by Craig Robinson(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1608192695 (ISBN13: 9781608192694)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: i'm probably rounding up. does this book deserve five stars? well. do we need an illustration showing us that arod's 2010 salary and prorated bonus equals a 3,178.3 mile high stack of pennies? do we need graphs, both pie and chart, breaking down all 2010 bobblehead giveaways? do we need to know the percentages of players who wore high socks on opening day 2010? well. did i need that third, fourth, or fifth drink this past friday night? of course not. but it happened, and so did this book. and maybe the world is better for it. though i can't say the same about those drinks.
review 2: I came across this book as I was wandering around the book store looking for Christmas gifts for my husband. My husband has collected a pretty extensive baseball book library, so fi... morending a baseball book he doesn't already have can be difficult and baseball books are probably his favorite present to receive. Flip Flop Fly Ball caught my interest as soon as I opened the book up. I can see where some might feel this is just a book of random stats and facts. But for those who love the game of baseball, the strategies, the historical changes, the settings, etc., the graphs and information in the book are not what I would consider random. Even if the nuances of baseball are of no interest to you, the visual inforgraphics are very eye catching and could be exemplary samples used in a statistic class or graphic design course. Sprinkled in with the infographics are some pretty interesting stories too that I am sure will be referenced in conversations with our baseball loving friends or at home, since a baseball game, baseball news or baseball movie is what is playing on our television 90% of the time. less

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