Rollie's Follies: Hall of Fame Revue of Baseball Lists and Lore, Stories And Stats was first published in 2009 by Clerisy Press. Baseball Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers

Rollie Fingers

Roland Glen Fingers is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. During his 18-year baseball career, he pitched for the Oakland Athletics , San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers . He became only the second reliever to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992...

 enlists backstage humorist Yellowstone Ritter to develop an inventive look at baseball. The book has been popular with independent booksellers throughout the U.S.

Synopsis

The book is divided into 54 easy-to-read chapters including humorous lists, insightful essays and the mustachioed MVP's own major league memories. The illustrations of Jerry Dowling

Jerry Dowling

Jerry Dowling is an American cartoonist who has also worked in newspaper illustration. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Illustration Award for 1994 for his work....

 (the award-winning Cincinnati cartoonist) nationally known for his caricatures of Marge Schott

Marge Schott

Margaret Unnewehr Schott was the managing general partner, president and CEO of the National League's Cincinnati Reds franchise from 1984 to 1999...

 adds another comic element on the cover and throughout the book.

The chapters covers current baseball figures and historical facts with titles such as:

• The Fallen Smelt
• The Phat Albert Dossier
• The All-Time Lefty Team
• The Japanese Factor
• Bucky Dent Revisited
• Disco Demolition Night
• Sausages and Presidents
• The Changing Role of the Closer (1950–2005)
• The Switch is On (The tale of switch-pitcher Pat Venditte
  Pat Venditte
  Patrick Michael Venditte Jr. is an American baseball player. He is a minor league baseball player currently in the New York Yankees organization. He currently pitches for the Class-AA Trenton Thunder in the Eastern League. Venditte is a "switch pitcher", meaning he can throw and pitch proficiently...
  
  successfully playing a game of cat and mouse against a switch-hitter)

Other outlets

A sister website is also published entitled Rollie's Baseball Follies that publishes informative tidbits and The YAM (The Yellowstone Applied Method). The YAM is an easy to read posting of team standings showing the chance of making the post-season on the way to the World Series.