Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure
About this ebook
How tall would A-Rod's annual salary be in pennies?
What does Nolan Ryan have to do with the Supremes and Mariah Carey?
You might never have asked yourself any of these questions, but Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball will make you glad to know the answers.
Baseball, almost from the first moment Robinson saw it, was more than a
sport. It was history, a nearly infinite ocean of information that
begged to be organized. He realized that understanding the game, which
he fell in love with as an adult, would never be possible just through
watching games and reading articles. He turned his obsession into a
dizzyingly entertaining collection of graphics that turned into an
Internet sensation.
Out of Robinson's Web site, www.flipflopflyball.com, grew this book, full of all-new, never-before-seen graphics. Flip Flop Fly Ball
dives into the game's history, its rivalries and absurdities, its
cities and ballparks, and brings them to life through 120 full-color
graphics. Statistics-the sport's lingua franca-have never been more fun.
(By the way, the answers: about 26,000 miles, at least if the
team in question is the 2008 Kansas City Royals; 3,178 miles; they were
the artists atop the Billboard Hot 100 when Ryan first and last appeared
in MLB games.)
About the author
York Yankees fan with a soft spot for the Colorado Rockies and a
man-crush on Ichiro. Last season he played outfield for the Prenzlauer
Berg Piranhas in the Berlin Mixed Softball League (AVG .452 SLG .548 OBP
.575). His previous book, Atlas, Schmatlas: A Superior Atlas of the World,
was deemed "highly inappropriate" by the director of the Forsyth County
Public Library. His Web site is www.flipflopflyball.com.
