Don't bunt in a blowout. Don't pimp your home runs. Act like you've been here before. InUnwritten: Bat Flips, the Fun Police, and Baseball's New Future, national baseball writer Danny Knobler dives deep beyond the brushbacks and brawls to examine shifting attitudes towards Major League Baseball's once-sacred player codes. What emerges in the process is a much larger story, one of a more youthful, more exuberant, more diverse game in the midst of a fascinating culture clash. Featuring countless interviews with some of baseball's biggest names, including current and former major-league players, coaches, scouts, and journalists,Unwrittenis a revealing, thoroughly of-the-moment portrait of a sport grappling with the loaded question of what it means to play the game the right way. Fans will not want to miss these varied, inside perspectives on America's pastime marching into the future.
Danny Knobleris a national lead MLB writer forBleacher Report.He has covered baseball for more than 30 years forBooth Newspapers, CBSSports.com, ESPN.com, and other publications. He is the author ofNumbers Don't Lie: The Biggest Numbers in Detroit Tigers History.
*Danny Knobler has 58k Twitter followers and a wide existing readership as Bleacher Report's lead MLB columnist.*This book is extremely current and features countless interviews with baseball's top names, including current and former major-league players, coaches, scouts, and journalists*The debate over unwritten rules is constantly at the media forefront, particularly in the aftermath of every on-field brawl. Younger, more emotionally demonstrative players like Bryce Harper have made headlines in recent seasons for challenging these codes.
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