Scapegoats
Subtitle: Baseballers Whose Careers Are Marked by One Fateful Play
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780786413812
Subjects: Baseball; Sports; Sports & Recreation; Baseball - History; Baseball - General; Baseball players; Defense; History; United States
Description: "Here are nine baseball players whose careers have been defined and misrepresented by one moment in which they botched a play, costing their teams an important victory (often a pennant or World Series win). Among them are Fred Merkle, whose controversial failure to tag second base after a game-winning single lost the pennant for the Giants in 1908; Fred Snodgrass, whose dropped fly ball helped the Red Sox win the 1912 World Series; Ralph Branca, who delivered one of the most talked about home runs in history to Bobby Thomson in the 1951 National League Championship series; and Bill Buckner, whose E-3 caused him to be blamed for the Red Sox's World Series loss in 1986.

Detailed profiles place their infamous miscues in the context of often outstanding careers."--Jacket.