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<\/a><\/p>\nFlip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n How many miles does a baseball team travel in one season?<\/p>\n How tall would A-Rod\u2019s annual salary be in pennies?<\/p>\n What does Nolan Ryan have to do with the Supremes and Mariah Carey?<\/p>\n You might never have asked yourself any of these questions, but Craig Robinson\u2019s Flip Flop Fly Ball will make you glad to know the answers.<\/p>\n Baseball, almost from the first moment Robinson saw it, was more than a sport. It was history, a nearly infinite ocean of information that begged to be organized. He realized that understanding the game, which he fell in love with as an adult, would never be possible just through watching games and reading articles. He turned his obsession into a dizzyingly entertaining collection of graphics that turned into an Internet sensation.<\/p>\n Out of Robinson\u2019s Web site, www.flipflopflyball.com,<\/a> grew this book, full of all-new, never-before-seen graphics. Flip Flop Fly Ball dives into the game\u2019s history, its rivalries and absurdities, its cities and ballparks, and brings them to life through 120 full-color graphics. Statistics-the sport\u2019s lingua franca-have never been more fun.<\/p>\n (By the way, the answers: about 26,000 miles, at least if the team in question is the 2008 Kansas City Royals; 3,178 miles; they were the artists atop the Billboard Hot 100 when Ryan first and last appeared in MLB games.)<\/p>\n Craig Robinson is, among other things, an Englishman and a New York Yankees fan with a soft spot for the Colorado Rockies and a man-crush on Ichiro. Last season he played outfield for the Prenzlauer Berg Piranhas in the Berlin Mixed Softball League (.452\/.548\/.575). His previous books include Atlas, Schmatlas: A Superior Atlas of the World<\/span><\/a> and Fun Fun Fun<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Beautiful book full of all sorts of fun and interesting stats presented in a creative manner. A must for baseball fans!<\/span><\/p>\n \n Another Kind of Dead<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n She can heal her own wounds. She can nail a monster to a wall. But there\u2019s one danger Evangeline Stone never saw coming.<\/p>\n Been there. Done that. Evy Stone is a former Dreg Bounty Hunter who died and came back to life with some extraordinary powers. Now all but five people in the world think she is dead again, this time for good\u2014immolated in a factory fire set specifically for her. Evy and Wyatt, her partner\/lover\/friend, can no longer trust their former allies, or even the highest echelons of the Triads\u2014the army of fighters holding back from an unsuspecting public a tide of quarreling, otherworldly creatures\u2014they can trust only each other. Because when the Triads raided a macabre, monster-filled lab of science experiments and hauled away the remnants, they failed to capture their creator: a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist with a wealth of powerful, anti-Dreg weaponry to trade for what he desires most of all\u2014Evy Stone: alive and well, and the key to his ultimate experiment in mad science.<\/p>\n \n The Difference Engine<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel with new commentary by the authors<\/p>\n 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard\u2014fallen woman, politician\u2019s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward \u201cLeviathan\u201d Mallory\u2014explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant\u2014diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for.<\/p>\n Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine took the science fiction community by storm when it was first published twenty years ago. This special anniversary edition features an Introduction by Cory Doctorow and a collaborative essay from the authors looking back on their creation. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, this novel is poised to impress a whole new generation.<\/p>\n Books received 7\/17\/11<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure by Craig Robinson Foreword by Rob Neyer Promo copy: How many miles does a baseball team travel in one … Continue reading
\nby Craig Robinson
\nForeword by Rob Neyer<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51tMABOtbIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Kelly Meding
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\nby William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
\nIntroduction by Cory Doctorow<\/span><\/p>\n