Publisher: Monarch Books

If you're looking for someone to write the book of the greatest hitters of all time, you want a Stan Musial, a Hank Aaron, or Willie Mays. If you want to produce a tome on the top pitchers in major league history, you go and find Bob Feller or Sandy Koufax. And if you want a book on baseball eccentrics you need lok no further than Bill "Spaceman" Lee. Lee is to flaky what Picasso was to painting.

In Baseball Eccentrics, the Spaceman has rounded up the most outrageous group of flakes, malcontents, characters, rebels, nut jobs, reprobates, wing nuts, wackos, space cadets, head cases, goofs, free thinkers and oddballs who ever livened up the grand old game. Not only does he describe their most bizarre antics in often-hilarious detail, but he offers his own unique thoughts on their particular genre of eccentricity. Lee has included them all: Dizzy, Daffy, Ducky, Dazzy, Yogi, Casey, a whole ward of Lefties, and an entire flock of Birdies and Hawks.