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December 9, 2010 · 1 comment

One of my favorite off-beat baseball sites is Craig Robinson’s Flip Flop Flyball. (I wrote about Robinson and his work awhile back.)

Rather than the usual staid numbers, Robinson — a graphic artist originally from Great Britain — takes unusual items and turns them into colorful graphic representations. Among the topics he’s considered on the site are bobblehead giveaways; how A-Rod’s salary would stack up — literally — if paid in pennies; an etymological representation of team names in a Venn diagram; and, most recently, how teams names break on home and away uniforms.

Well, Robinson has collected many of these charts and diagrams for Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, scheduled for a July 2011 release from Bloomsbury.I would buy it for the cover alone:

With Robinson’s artwork and Rob Neyer’s participation, what’s not to love?

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  • Cbrobeck

    I just searched my rare book library for “A Little Pretty Pocket-Book” by John Newbery (which I saw was humorously manipulated in the collection above. Sadly, we don’t have the first book to mention baseball in our collection. Bummed.

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