Abbott and Costello's Who's on First is now a fun book. Bases loaded! Home run!

Who’s on first. What’s on second. I Don’t Know’s on third.
So who is on first?
We just got out copy of the new book Who's on First, and cannot stop smiling. Quirk Books calls it a children’s book, but the delightfully illustrated take on the classic comedy skit by Abbott and Costello is for the young . . . and young-at-heart.
No wonder Chris Costello, the daughter of Costello, gushes, Who‘s on First? is stunning. Dad and Bud would be proud!”
Abbott and Costello’s popular sketch has been named the best comedy sketch of the 20th-century by Time and the duo was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
This baseball routine is now taking to home plate with new life as a picture book, featuring full-color, retro-stylized illustrations by cartoonist and illustrator John Martz and the rat-a-tat banter of Abbott and Costello's original skit.
For those who missed Jimmy Fallon's recent Who's on First? sequel with Billy Crystal and Jerry Seinfeld on Late Night, get ready to roar . . . and perhaps pee in your pants: latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/whos-on-first-the-sequel-w-jimmy-fallon-billy-crystal-and-jerry-seinfeld/1427514/.
A home run!

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