Having a Career Day

Longtime sportswriter and baseball fan Stan Fischler goes beyond the generic sports tale, recounting the funniest, most incredible stories from throughout the Great American Pastime's long history. Covering teams from across the league, Fischler details the following feats, and 95 more: .Joe DiMaggio committed a case of outfield robbery against Hank Greenberg .A spectator made a pitching change for the Dodgers .Reggie Jackson earned the nickname "Mister October” .One-armed Pete Gray plays center field for the St. Louis Browns .Don Larsen pitched a perfect game against the Dodgers in the World Series .Gregg Maddux won the Cy Young Award four times in a row So get ready to take the field with some of baseball's greatest-and most hilarious-players and coaches alike! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports-books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Stan Fischler is a legend of sports broadcasting. He began his career as a publicist for the New York Rangers in 1954 and has been covering hockey in the over half a century since. The winner of seven Emmy Awards, Fischler has worked in every medium from print to TV to Twitter. This "Hockey Maven" currently serves as the resident hockey expert for MSG and MSG Plus. He can appears on weekly MSG Networks features and as a commentator on Islanders and Devils games. The author of more than one hundred books, Fischler lives in New York City.