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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35764
EAN num: 9781589793347
ISBN number: 158979334X
Label: Taylour Trade Publishing
Manufacturer: Taylour Trade Publishing
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Page Count: 240
Printing Date: April 25, 2008
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In the history of baseball, trading baseball players was almost as easy as trading baseball cards. These trades were negotiated before the end of the reserve clause and the beginning of arbitration, free agency, gargantuan salaries, and no-trade contracts. Drawing upon his vast research and insider access, Zimniuch explores trading throughout the years, profiling players who teams regrettably traded, and shares perspectives from the general managers and the players themselves. With a foreword by former general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers Fred Claire, Going Going Gone is a must-read for baseball fans.
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"A must read for all baseball fans! Fran Zimniuch captures the facinating journey of America's game and the history of the baseball trade before free agency and block buster deals. He takes a revealing look at some of the games biggest transactions - the good and the bad, yesterday and today. Going, Going Gone! is a definitive look at the evolution of the trade and provides remarkable insight about our national pastime."
Elissa Walker Campbell, Host The Big E Sports Show
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This book addresses the development of the art of the trade and its impact on baseball. Many specifics are examined but the author doesn't let you get overwhelmed by or lost in the details. It is explained with well- balanced insight. The subtleties and nuances are examined in a way that gives the reader a solid understanding of trading as a driving force in the game today.
This book is tailour made for baseball fans from the serious student of the game to the person that simply enjoys the sport and wants to learn more. The authors writing is engaging from start to finish. All in all, Going, Going, Gone! is a must read for any baseball fan.
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This book takes a historical view of baseball trades from the start of the game until the present. It's an interesting and informative treatment of the many different types of trades that are made as well as the way trades are made. But this book delves into the history of trades and how the art of making trades has changed throughout the years. Numerous interviews with general managers and players bring the book to life. There are some outstanding first-person narratives to bring baseball trades to life.
The author goes to great lengths to explain the many challenges to baseball's reserve clause, from the Mexican League to Curt Flood to Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally. But he also provides a wealth of information about how and why the reserve clause began.
Many specific trades are discussed, some good and some bad. And there are countless humorous anticdotes included as well.
Going, Going, Gone provides a a wonderful resource for the serious baseball fan who craves more than a shallow view of the art of the trade. It's about time that someone wrote a book to make how players change teams more understandable. I recommend it highly.
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Despite the title of this book having something to do with "the art of the trade in Major League Baseball", more than half the book's contents is devoted to a review of baseball's reserve clause from the 1880s until 1970. It breaks no new ground there.
This is absolutely not a book for baseball fans, but is instead apparently aimed at people who will be enlightened to hear about Milt Pappas for the very first time.
Zimniuch spends about half the book discussing (in a still cursory fashion) the reserve clause and its evolution over 80 years of professional baseball, provides an absurdly superficial overview of the Curt Flood case (Brad Snyder's book from last year A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports is a vastly superior discusion of both topics), presents a chapter on Messersmith/McNally and then lists a few preposterous trades (Cy Young getting traded for a suit of clothes, Tim Fortugno for 12 dozen baseballs, etc.), but doesn't even do a comprehensive job of that (he left out Dave Winfield being traded to the Indians for future considerations that meant the Indians GM took the Twins GM to dinner).
It's a quick read, it's totally innocuous, aside from countless spelling errors in player names (seriously, you spell his name Cal Ripkin?), but its title is so woefully deceiving as to be unforgivable. You'll learn little or nothing about the process of conceiving a trade or selling it to a general manager except that one was once made over a urinal.
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