Bats, Balls, and Hollywood Stars: Hollywood's Love Affair with Baseball

by Joe Siegman

Overview

Only one big league baseball club, the LA Dodgers, had an annual Hollywood Stars Night exhibition game. Over the years, other major league and minor league teams have produced their own celebrity ball games from time to time, with varying levels of success. Nonetheless, no other ball clubs, majors or minors, had been able to successfully sustain their celebrity game event over a period of years such as the LA Dodgers have. And, no other team—major league, minor league, and most prominently in recent years, MLB’s All Star Game celebrity event—had been able to consistently deliver the impressive rosters of motion picture, TV, and live entertainment celebrities who suited up year after year at Dodgers Stadium for Hollywood Stars Night. Bats, Balls and Hollywood Stars includes some of the stories and backstage tales that made Hollywood Stars Night a Los Angeles Dodgers tradition for nearly 60 years. Filled with nostalgic memories captured in words and photographs, this volume brings baseball and celebrity together and commemorates a Hollywood twist to our national pastime.

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Synopsis: Only one big league baseball club, the LA Dodgers, had an annual Hollywood Stars Night exhibition game. Over the years, other major league and minor league teams have produced their own celebrity ball games from time to time, with varying levels of success. Nonetheless, no other ball clubs, majors or minors, had been able to successfully sustain their celebrity game event over a period of years such as the LA Dodgers have. And, no other team (major league, minor league, and most prominently in recent years, MLB's All Star Game celebrity event) had been able to consistently deliver the impressive rosters of motion picture, TV, and live entertainment celebrities who suited up year after year at Dodgers Stadium for Hollywood Stars Night. "Bats, Balls, and Hollywood Stars: Hollywood's Love Affair with Baseball" includes some of the stories and backstage tales that made Hollywood Stars Night a Los Angeles Dodgers tradition for nearly 60 years. Filled with nostalgic memories captured in words and photographs, "Bats, Balls, and Hollywood Stars: Hollywood's Love Affair with Baseball" brings baseball and celebrity together and commemorates a Hollywood twist to our national pastime.

Critique: Expertly written and impressively researched, "Bats, Balls, and Hollywood Stars: Hollywood's Love Affair with Baseball" will have immense appeal for baseball enthusiasts in general, and LA Dodger fans in particular. Profusely illustrated throughout with black-and-white period photography, "Bats, Balls, and Hollywood Stars: Hollywood's Love Affair with Baseball" is enhanced with the inclusion of a list of the 'Most Notable Celebrities by Decade' and 'Hollywood Stars Night 1964-2003'. "Bats, Balls, and Hollywood Stars: Hollywood's Love Affair with Baseball" will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community library American History and Sports History collections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781891928468
Publisher:	Educator's International Press
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 11.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

JOE SIEGMAN began his entertainment career as a Hollywood ‘hyphenate”—a publicist-producer-- representing such stars as Carroll O’Connor (TV’s Archie Bunker), and as a successful producer of what today are known as TV “reality shows” (Celebrity Bowling, Celebrity Tennis, The Comedy Shop, Comedy After Hours, et als), and movies-for-television. Along the way, he was active in the careers of many marquee comedians (Don Rickles, Don Adams, Sid Caesar, Shelley Berman, Shecky Green, et als), and helped launch or foster the careers of comics such as: Jay Leno, Brad Garrett, Ellen DeGeneres, Bob Saget, Arsenio Hall, Howie Mandel, Nathan Lane, Paul Rodriquez, and numerous others. Joe is also an active sports fan, writer, and enthusiast, who In 1981, founded the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Netanya, Israel.