Filip Bondy, Author . Da Capo $25 (281p) ISBN 978-0306814860
It's not the worst mistake in sports history, but it's among the most famous—with the second pick in the 1984 NBA draft, the Portland Trailblazers selected Sam Bowie instead of several future stars, including Michael Jordan. In this tremendously...
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Filip Bondy. Doubleday, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-53612-7
New York Daily News sportswriter Bondy offers a compendium of the lore that has elevated baseball to religious status. The title—a play on the Abbott and Costello vaudeville skit, “Who’s on First?”—is an appropriate summary of a sport that is “all...
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Filip Bondy. Scribner, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7717-7
During professional baseball’s rough-and-tumble era, Bondy, a veteran sports columnist for the New York Daily News, relives the 1983 Pine Tar game between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees, with all of the wacky subplots included. Bondy...
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Filip Bondy, read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio, unabridged, digital download, 8 hrs., $20 ISBN 978-0-385-36259-7
Based on a collection of hilarious real-life tales from gifted sportswriter Bondy (Bleeding Pinstripes: A Season with the Bleacher Creatures of Yankee Stadium) this audiobook will have listeners begging for more. Narrated by the ever-reliable Scott...
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