{"product_id":"9780802192165","title":"I Don't Care If We Never Get Back: 30 Games in 30 Days on the Best Worst Baseball Road Trip Ever","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cb\u003eTwo friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: \"A fun ride\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    On June 1, 2013, they set out to see America through the bleachers and concession stands of America's favorite pastime. Along the way, human error and Mother Nature throw their mathematically optimized schedule a few curveballs. A mix-up in Denver turns a planned day off in Las Vegas into a twenty-hour drive. And a summer storm of biblical proportions threatens to make the whole thing logistically impossible, and that's if they don't kill each other first. \u003ci\u003eI Don't Care if We Never Get Back\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the love of the game, the limits of fandom, and the limitlessness of friendship.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \"\u003ci\u003eMoneyball\u003c\/i\u003e-worthy mathematical algorithms and the sharp, hilarious prose that has made \u003ci\u003eLampoon\u003c\/i\u003e alums famous for generations . . . Nate Silver numbers and James Thurber wit turn what should be a harebrained adventure into a pretty damn endearing one.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \"Evokes the spirit of sports stunt journalist George Plimpton and the dazed road-trip fever of Hunter S. Thompson, minus the mind-altering substances . . . . It's great watching Blatt and Brewster race home.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \"A cross between \u003ci\u003eThe Cannonball Run\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Race\u003c\/i\u003e, with portions of \u003ci\u003eIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World\u003c\/i\u003e thrown in for good measure . . . The dynamic and back-and-forth tension and sarcasm between Blatt and Brewster is funny . . . Worth reading.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Tampa Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127952097520,"sku":"9780802192165","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802192165_p0.jpg?v=1763738010","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802192165","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}