Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
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What if a few dozen of the best storytellers in the world wrote about the game they loved? Answer: You’d get a splendid book!The similarities between young road comics and young baseball players are many, and you’ll find some terrific behind-the-scenes stories here about when the two worlds intersected. This one-of-a-kind book contains both the hysterical and the poignant. You can read straight-up jokes and touching personal memories. You’ll visit the ballyards and the comedy showrooms. There is also a big scoop of baseball history. It’s everything baseball through the eyes of top nightclub and TV comedians. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll want a hot dog and beer from the concession stand.Over 40 professional stand-up comics contributed stories to Comedians Talking Baseball. Collectively, they played most every comedy club in America and throughout the English-speaking world during stand-up’s Golden Age of the 1980s and 90s. These guys and gals did sets on all the major television shows. The writers of these stories have won numerous Emmy Awards. They’ve written screenplays and stage plays and penned scripts for TV shows that range from Seinfeld to King of the Hill to Rugrats. There are joke writers for Letterman and Leno and Saturday Night Live. In these enjoyable pages, they all turn their complete attention to baseball.
