Talking Baseball with Major League Stars - by Wayne Stewart (Hardcover)

About the Book

Talking Baseball with Major League Stars explores a wide range of entertaining, timely, and illuminating topics about Major League Baseball-including cheating, intimidation, racism, and the players' biggest fears-through the words of the ballplayer themselves.

Book Synopsis

An entertaining and illuminating inside look at Major League Baseball through the words of the players themselves.

Imagine you had the opportunity to sit down with ballplayers such as Hank Aaron, Greg Maddux, Joe Torre, and Nolan Ryan. You might ask them about their star teammates and hated opponents. You might talk about the obstacles they overcame and the strategies that led to their success. Or you might just talk about life in the majors.

In Talking Baseball with Major League Stars, Wayne Stewart provides readers with all that and more. Featuring over 45 years of interviews, Stewart details the history, tactics, and inside stories of the national pastime with unique perspectives that only the players, coaches, and managers could provide. They discuss the most difficult pitchers they faced, the unwritten rules, the game's wildest characters, cheating, intimidation, the players they most admire, racism in and around the sport, and their fears and doubts, along with candid stories never heard before.

Including exclusive insight from more than fifty Hall of Famers and countless award winners, and covering nearly one hundred different topics, Talking Baseball with Major League Stars is a fascinating behind-the-scenes journey into the world of professional baseball.

Review Quotes

"Talking Baseball with Major League Stars covers a very wide range of subjects--and many great ballplayers from the past and present--which will interest any baseball fan. Over his 45 years of covering baseball, Stewart has interviewed hundreds of players who share their insights in this book." --Vern Law, All Star and 1960 Cy Young Award Winner

"Talking Baseball with Major League Stars gives the reader the inside story on many areas of baseball, as if the reader was able to ask questions to major leaguers. The answers should interest all baseball fans, making this a must read." --Roy Face, record holder for his 18-1 season, six-time All Star, and member of the 1960 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates

" Talking Baseball with Major League Stars is a joyful book that will take readers everywhere they wish to go in the baseball world. The subjects range from great moments in baseball history to little-known facts and candid observations that even longtime fans may be reading for the first time." --The Book Reporter

"Talking Baseball with Major League Stars, is an entertaining and illustrative look at the game through the eyes of the players themselves." --Brooklyn Digest

About the Author

Wayne Stewart is a professional writer and sports historian. He is the author of forty books, including Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years: An Inside Look at the Golden Age of Football; All the Moves I Had: A Football Life, written with Raymond Berry; Wits, Flakes, and Clowns: The Colorful Characters of Baseball, and several sports trivia titles. He has written numerous articles for publications such as Baseball Digest, USA Today/Baseball Weekly, and the SABR Research Journal. Stewart resides in Ohio.