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Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons episode "Homer At the Bat"

Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons episode "Homer At the Bat"

          
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The Simpsons and baseball. Since its debut in 1989 (that's back in the last century!), The Simpsons has run for 27 seasons and (back in 2009) became the longest-running American scripted primetime television series. Though it would be considered sacrilege in some circles, some might even see it as a national pastime of its own.

The series has a long history with baseball and in Season Three, the episode "Homer at the Bat" aired, on February 20, 1992. Co-editor Emily Hawks writes in her Introduction, "To see so many of the biggest MLB stars of the day in Simpsonian animated form - Ken Griffey, Jr., Ozzie Smith, and Jose Canseco, just to name a few - seemed the most exciting thing in the world to this '90s kid. And the fact that they all lent their own voices to the parts seemed even cooler. It may have also been one of my first glimpses into baseball's early days. As a kid, I had no idea that Mr. Burns' dream squad - comprised of colorful names like Shoeless Joe Jackson, Pie Traynor, and Napoleon Lajoie-actually referenced real players. Those seemed like decidedly fabricated names to me!"

They weren't. They were real ballplayers. And, one way or another, Simpsons writers have worked the names of 68 major-league ballplayers into one episode or another. Football's Joe Namath, Warren Sapp, and Johnny Unitas have appeared in shows. So have basketballers Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Yao Ming, and Dennis Rodman. Without doing exhaustive research, we believe there may be more baseball players than the other pro sports combined.

Some 27 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) have collaborated in Nuclear Powered Baseball to tell the stories of each player-past and present-featured in the classic Simpsons episode. The biographies compiled here take the players well beyond their two-dimensional caricatures, and present a well-rounded view of their lives in baseball. We've also included a few very entertaining takes on the now-famous "Homer at the Bat" episode from prominent baseball writers Jonah Keri, Erik Malinowski, and Bradley Woodrum. As an added bonus, we've also included Joe Posnanski's piece on the Season 22 sabermetric-themed episode, "MoneyBart."

TOC:
Introduction by Emily Hawks
The Making of "Homer at the Bat" by Erik Malinowski
The Burns-Smithers Question by Bradley Woodrum
Wade Boggs by Steve West
Jose Canseco by Geoffrey Dunn
Roger Clemens by Frederick C. Bush
Ken Griffey Jr. by Emily Hawks
Don Mattingly by James Lincoln Ray
Steve Sax by Alan Cohen
Mike Scioscia by Susan Lantz
Ozzie Smith by Charles F. Faber
Darryl Strawberry by Shawn Morris
Cap Anson by David Fleitz
Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown by Cindy Thomson
Jim Creighton by John Thorn
Honus Wagner by Jan Finkel
Pie Traynor by James Forr
Harry Hooper by Paul Zingg and E. A. Reed
Nap Lajoie by David Jones and Stephen Constantelos
Gabby Street by Joseph Wancho
Joe Jackson by David Fleitz
Homer Simpson by Bill Nowlin
"Homer at the Bat" - the game by Bill Nowlin
Ryan Tosses No-Hitter; Cash Wields Table Leg by Gregory H. Wolf
The New Springfield Nine by Jonah Keri
The Simpsons Baseball Edition by Joe Posnanski
Baseball People Mentioned in The Simpsons


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781943816118
  • Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
  • Publisher Imprint: Society for American Baseball Research
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Series Title: Sabr Digital Library
  • Sub Title: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons episode "Homer At the Bat"
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1943816115
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jan 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 494 gr

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