Baseball Register, 2003 Edition : Every Player, Every Stat! [Paperback]

Sporting News (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2002 | Series: Baseball Register, 2003

Get all the stats that matter on every major-league player for the 2003 season in the Baseball Register. It is the most complete annual listing of player statistics in the market, updated through the 2002 season. Whatever statistics fans want to find, this is the only source they will need. Here they can find the stats on batting, pitching, and fielding for the major, minor, and college leagues. There are even stats on the Hall of Fame class of 2003! Plus, this edition of the Register will feature more statistical categories on each player, including on-base percentage, caught stealing, save opportunities, and more! This book is a must-have for fantasy-league players, reporters and broadcasters, and fans.

Product Details

• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: Sporting News (December 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892046996
• ISBN-13: 978-0892046997
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,687,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No Integration with STATS, Inc., December 26, 2002

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Howard S. Epstein (Aurora, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baseball Register, 2003 Edition : Every Player, Every Stat! (Paperback)

I agree with the first reviewer wholeheartedly. This is the Sporting News 2003 Baseball Register, not the Sporting News/STATS 2003 Baseball Register. There is an almost undetectable difference between last year's TSN Register and this one -- and this is a huge loss for Major League Baseball Handbook fans.

Every year, I looked forward to the early November arrival of the STATS Major League Handbook. I figured that with the new partnership with the Sporting News and the six week delay in publishing, it was going to be a bigger and better book than ever. How wrong that turned out to be. This is a basic back-of-the-baseball card stats regurgitation with almost no extra "stuff" except for a couple of pages of STATS-like managerial tendencies. Not even the basics such as leaderboards, much less projections for 2003 or in-depth fielding statistics.

A major disappointment, and a major loss for serious baseball fans who like their stats. I'm guessing STATS was losing their shirts on these books -- and that's why they first pulled their books from third-party distribution, and then pulled them altogether. Like the old Zander Hollander annual baseball guides (Handbook of Baseball), the old STATS books will be sorely missed.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars False Advertising, January 18, 2003

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This review is from: Baseball Register, 2003 Edition : Every Player, Every Stat! (Paperback)

This book contains virtually none of the great material that was previously in the STATS handbook. Anyone familiar with the STATS handbook will be misled by the false advertising and implications that STATS combined their efforts with TSN to create a better handbook. I won't be fooled again next year!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fielding Disappears, January 29, 2003

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Chris Maxfield "Chris Maxfield" (Walla Walla, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baseball Register, 2003 Edition : Every Player, Every Stat! (Paperback)

Like many other reviewers I regret the passing of the Stats Baseball Handbooks, since I had stopped buying the Register after I discovered the Handbook. I therefore rather reluctantly bought the Register this year thinking the promised addition of On-base and slugging percentages would at least make the new Register better than the old ones. I was very disappointed, though, to find out that room had been created for OBP and Slug by dumping putouts and assists from the fielding stats. One of the few advantages the older Registers had was that they did not ignore a player's yearly fielding stats. (The Stats Handbook only provided them for the past season.)