Some sample questions from this category:
* Jim Bouton's groundbreaking bestseller, 'Ball Four', is about his experiences with which expansion team?
* Bouton writes about his efforts to get back to the Majors using what pitch?
* Who described some of the bizarre plays during the Mets' first season in his book entitled 'Can't Anybody Here Play This Game'?
* Many of the most entertaining books are written by ex-catchers. Which former catcher wrote about the humorous side of baseball in his bestseller 'Baseball Is a Funny Game'?
* Whose biography is entitled, 'The Catcher Is a Spy?'
* Which catcher-turned-broadcaster wrote 'The Catcher in the Wry'?
* Which catcher-turned-broadcaster wrote 'Baseball for Brain Surgeons'?
* Which colorful former umpire wrote about his umpiring experiences in the entertaining book, 'The Umpire Strikes Back'?
* Who wrote 'It is said that baseball is 'only a game'. Yes, and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.'?
* Who wrote a magazine article entitled '99 reasons why baseball is better than football'?
* The well-known poem 'Casy at the Bat', written by Ernest Thayer, was first published in which newpaper?
* Who wrote the almost-as-well-known poem 'Tinker to Evers to Chance'?
* Managers have written some good baseball books. Which former manager wrote 'Nice Guys Finish Last', chronicling his days as a player and manager over a period of six different decades?
* Which erudite baseball observor wrote this nugget in his bestselling book: 'Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community'?
* Whose beautiful eulogy at Mickey Mantle's funeral, entitled 'The Ninth Inning', included the observation that 'We knew there was something poignant about Mickey Mantle before we knew what poignant meant'?
* Which Dodger became an agnostic after his son lost a leg in Vietnam?
* Which 'boy of summer' sued the Dodgers because they released him while he was hurt, without paying him for the rest of the year as required by the standard player contract?
* Which Dodger became a broadaster, teaming with Dizzy Dean on NBC's Game of the Week?
* Which Dodger became a bartender in Newport, Pennsylvania?
* Which Dodger became the manager of the Mets?
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