Author: Ben Blatt
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192165
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe). Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course. On June 1, 2013, they set out to see America through the bleachers and concession stands of America’s favorite pastime. Along the way, human error and Mother Nature throw their mathematically optimized schedule a few curveballs. A mix-up in Denver turns a planned day off in Las Vegas into a twenty-hour drive. And a summer storm of biblical proportions threatens to make the whole thing logistically impossible, and that’s if they don’t kill each other first. I Don’t Care if We Never Get Back is a book about the love of the game, the limits of fandom, and the limitlessness of friendship. “Moneyball-worthy mathematical algorithms and the sharp, hilarious prose that has made Lampoon alums famous for generations . . . Nate Silver numbers and James Thurber wit turn what should be a harebrained adventure into a pretty damn endearing one.” —Kirkus Reviews “Evokes the spirit of sports stunt journalist George Plimpton and the dazed road-trip fever of Hunter S. Thompson, minus the mind-altering substances . . . . It’s great watching Blatt and Brewster race home.” —The Boston Globe “A cross between The Cannonball Run and The Great Race, with portions of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World thrown in for good measure . . . The dynamic and back-and-forth tension and sarcasm between Blatt and Brewster is funny . . . Worth reading.” —The Tampa Tribune
I Don't Care If We Never Get Back
Author: Ben Blatt
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192165
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe). Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course. On June 1, 2013, they set out to see America through the bleachers and concession stands of America’s favorite pastime. Along the way, human error and Mother Nature throw their mathematically optimized schedule a few curveballs. A mix-up in Denver turns a planned day off in Las Vegas into a twenty-hour drive. And a summer storm of biblical proportions threatens to make the whole thing logistically impossible, and that’s if they don’t kill each other first. I Don’t Care if We Never Get Back is a book about the love of the game, the limits of fandom, and the limitlessness of friendship. “Moneyball-worthy mathematical algorithms and the sharp, hilarious prose that has made Lampoon alums famous for generations . . . Nate Silver numbers and James Thurber wit turn what should be a harebrained adventure into a pretty damn endearing one.” —Kirkus Reviews “Evokes the spirit of sports stunt journalist George Plimpton and the dazed road-trip fever of Hunter S. Thompson, minus the mind-altering substances . . . . It’s great watching Blatt and Brewster race home.” —The Boston Globe “A cross between The Cannonball Run and The Great Race, with portions of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World thrown in for good measure . . . The dynamic and back-and-forth tension and sarcasm between Blatt and Brewster is funny . . . Worth reading.” —The Tampa Tribune
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192165
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe). Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course. On June 1, 2013, they set out to see America through the bleachers and concession stands of America’s favorite pastime. Along the way, human error and Mother Nature throw their mathematically optimized schedule a few curveballs. A mix-up in Denver turns a planned day off in Las Vegas into a twenty-hour drive. And a summer storm of biblical proportions threatens to make the whole thing logistically impossible, and that’s if they don’t kill each other first. I Don’t Care if We Never Get Back is a book about the love of the game, the limits of fandom, and the limitlessness of friendship. “Moneyball-worthy mathematical algorithms and the sharp, hilarious prose that has made Lampoon alums famous for generations . . . Nate Silver numbers and James Thurber wit turn what should be a harebrained adventure into a pretty damn endearing one.” —Kirkus Reviews “Evokes the spirit of sports stunt journalist George Plimpton and the dazed road-trip fever of Hunter S. Thompson, minus the mind-altering substances . . . . It’s great watching Blatt and Brewster race home.” —The Boston Globe “A cross between The Cannonball Run and The Great Race, with portions of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World thrown in for good measure . . . The dynamic and back-and-forth tension and sarcasm between Blatt and Brewster is funny . . . Worth reading.” —The Tampa Tribune
I Don't Care If We Never Get Back
Author: Ben Blatt
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802123763
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A pair of friends from Harvard embark on a road trip to see 30 baseball games in 30 different stadiums over 30 days and describe their misadventures in this book about sports fans, loyalty, hot dogs and friendship.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802123763
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A pair of friends from Harvard embark on a road trip to see 30 baseball games in 30 different stadiums over 30 days and describe their misadventures in this book about sports fans, loyalty, hot dogs and friendship.
I Don't Care If We Never Get Back
Author: Ben Blatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802122742
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A pair of friends from Harvard embark on a road trip to see 30 baseball games in 30 different stadiums over 30 days and describe their misadventures in this book about sports fans, loyalty, hot dogs and friendship. 20,000 first printing.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802122742
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A pair of friends from Harvard embark on a road trip to see 30 baseball games in 30 different stadiums over 30 days and describe their misadventures in this book about sports fans, loyalty, hot dogs and friendship. 20,000 first printing.
United States. Ordnance Department. Army Canteen
Women and Missions
Author: Lucia P. Towne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work with women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work with women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
I Don't Care about Your Band
Author: Julie Klausner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592405244
Category : Dating (Social customs)
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A memoir based on the author's New York Times "Modern Love" piece about her brush-off by an indie rock musician describes her haphazard Jewish upbringing and rocky misadventures in romantic enlightenment.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592405244
Category : Dating (Social customs)
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A memoir based on the author's New York Times "Modern Love" piece about her brush-off by an indie rock musician describes her haphazard Jewish upbringing and rocky misadventures in romantic enlightenment.
The Pacific Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Boy's Own Paper
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description