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Tim Curry's cover for the first paperback edition of Dr. Whacko's Guide from Colliers. |
Dr. Whacko's Guide
to Slow-Pitch Softball
by Bruce Brown
SINCE ITS original publication by Macmillan in 1991, Dr. Whacko's Guide to Slow-Pitch Softball has become an international cult favorite.
Wherever softball is played, people have sought out the good doctor for his witty and winning advice on America's most popular participant sport.
Dr. Whacko can make a beginner better, and make a good player a real force on the softball diamond. He can teach you how to hit for power, throw a slow-pitch curve, and cut off an opponent's rally.
Check out this tip disguised as a funny story about playing softball in Havana, Cuba. But Dr. Whacko does more than provide useful tips. His stories about his team, the Mouth Breathers of Nooksack, Oregon, read like a cross between Lake Woebegon Days and A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
A comic novel crossed with a slow-pitch softball manual, this is the improbable saga of the unstoppable Mouth Breathers, a summer that didn't end until a few days after Christmas on a frozen lake, and some of the slow-pitch softball tricks that landed the 'Breathers in the snow drifts.
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The personal digital edition of Dr. Whacko's Guide to Slow-Pitch Softball by Bruce Brown is an exact replica for the first edition paperback from Colliers in electronic format which you can read, search, print, etc. on any PC or Mac.
If part of it gets trashed (say rain wrecks it in the dugout) you can just print out another! |
| Format: | Adobe Acrobat PDF file or traditional trade paperback book |
| Dimensions: | The PDF is 280K. The electronic book it contains, Dr. Whacko's Guide to Slow-Pitch Softball by Bruce Brown, measures 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, and is 127 pages long |
| Delivery: | * Download Edition: either via email or download
* First Edition Paperback Edition: via US Mail |
| Price: | * Downlad Edition: $9.95 U.S. plus 81 cents Washington State sales tax for a total of $10.76
* First Edition Paperback Edition: $29.95 U.S. plus $2.51 Washington State sales tax for a total of $32.46 |
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Praise for Dr. Whacko's Guide to Slow-Pitch Softball
"Funny and informative, and possibly the first of a new genre: the 'fictional' instructional."
-- Wes Lukowsky, Booklist
"An ingeniously funny work..."
-- Fred Moody, Seattle Weekly
"If the executive vice president also happens to be the captain of your company softball team, a quick course with Dr. Whacko may just put you on the fast track to a promotion."
-- Allen St. John, Trenton Times
"If you enjoy softball or just a fun story, you'll enjoy this book."
-- Jim Carberry, Bellingham Herald
"The pitch is slow, but the track is fast for Dr. Whacko's wit... If you are consumed with ambition to be a slow-pitch softball star, this book is your primer."
-- Emmett Watson, Seattle Times
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