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

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Overview

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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312362249
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 5/27/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 285,078
  • Product dimensions: 5.54 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 0.78 (d)

Meet the Author

Tim Kurkjian has spent his entire professional career covering baseball. He is an analyst/reporter for Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine, a columnist for ESPN.com, and a frequent guest on ESPN Radio.

Table of Contents


Introduction     1
My Mom Was My Catcher     5
Business ... But It's a Pleasure     21
I'll Beat You Playing from My Knees     39
Phil Niekro's Teeth     59
I'm Old, I'm Fat, I'm Bald, I'm Ugly, I Have a Plate in My Head     77
My Face Was Crushed by a Bowling Ball Going 90 MPH     97
I Need It Now-Stat!     119
Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign     137
I'm Whacked     149
There Was a Blimp in Left Field     167
The Sun Will Rise, the Sun Will Set, and I'll Have Lunch     179
It's Ambidextrous, Not Amphibious     191
Angel, My Man     201
Why Can't There Be a Left-Handed Catcher?     217
Just Grab That Bat as Tight as You Can, Son     227
I Love Ketchup     239
Why Waste the 90 Seconds on the Front Page?     257
Acknowledgments     275
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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 13, 2007

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    Love it, as would anyone who would read it - so interesting if you like baseball or sports.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 27, 2011

    A Double

    Tim has plenty of funny baseball stories and good insight on players, managers and scouts. Great thoughts on the pros and cons of the game today. Tim truly loves baseball and it shows.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 20, 2011

    Read This if You Love Baseball

    This is a great read on anecdotes, insight, history and the business of the American pastime. I read it during tge World Series as the camera kept pointing at Tony LaRussa.

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  • Posted May 30, 2009

    Kurkjian Captures Why We Love The Game

    A most excellent insight into baseball from the perspective of a man who has covered the sport for over 25 years. It is an inside look at the work ethic, the preperation, the challanges, and the joy of this Great Game.
    Tim Kukkjian has so much knowledge and access to players, managers, writers and broadcasters. This is a pleasure to read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2009

    It's a Grand Slam

    For any baseball lover this is a must! It's short, sweet, funny, honest and eye-opening. While it's a true insider's look at the mostly positive side of baseball, it's honest enough to look at the dark side, too. Tim's as good off-camera as he is on.

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