Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
You already know the 1982 pennant, Robin Yount’s two MVPs, and Bob Uecker’s voice. This book is for everything you don’t know yet.If you sing 'Roll Out the Barrel' by heart and still read the box score of a meaningless Tuesday game in August, the casual trivia books are not for you. They recycle the same dozen famous moments and pad the rest with questions any fan could answer. This is the book for the fan who already knows the basics and wants the stories underneath them.Inside are 200 deeply researched facts, each told as a short, punchy story, spanning the entire history of the franchise from its chaotic birth as the bankrupt Seattle Pilots to the contention teams of the modern era. No dry quiz format. No filler. Just the kind of details even lifelong fans tend to miss.BUILT FOR THE HARDCORE FAN: Roughly ninety percent of these 200 facts go beyond the famous moments, so even a fan who has followed the team for decades will find page after page of things they never knewSTORIES, NOT JUST QUESTIONS: Every fact is a full story with the names, dates, and numbers that make it real, not a bare quiz question with a one-line answer.THE WHOLE HISTORY, NOT JUST THE HIGHLIGHTS: Coverage runs from the 1969 Seattle Pilots and the six-days-before-Opening-Day move through Harvey’s Wallbangers, the 2008 drought-breaker, and the Counsell and Murphy contention years.THE STUFF OTHER BOOKS SKIP: The Bud Selig rescue, the front-office trades that built and sold off contenders, the ball-in-glove logo’s hidden letters, the Big Blue crane collapse, the Racing Sausages, and the Bob Uecker stories Milwaukee will never forget.EVERY FACT TRACEABLE: A Notes on Sources section at the back identifies the primary source for all 200 facts, so you can trust what you read and dig deeper into any story.Organized into 12 chapters across three parts, the book covers the people, the games, and the identity of a small-market franchise that survives on shrewdness. Read it straight through or flip to whatever catches your eye, every fact stands on its own.Settle the argument at the tailgate, stump the fan who thinks they know it all, and find out how much you really know about the Brew Crew. Scroll up and grab your copy.
