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Baseball Register 2005 Edition (Baseball Register & Fantasy Handbook)

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If you're looking for a quick, handy reference guide to current players, this is a pretty good source. Included are the regular season and postseason stats for anyone who appeared in the majors in 2004. Don't expect to see advanced stats like VORP or EqERA, but there are items like lefty-righty batting and pitching breakdowns.

For a traditional stats publication, TSN has done a decent job. If you need something with more Sabermetric info, I'd suggest waiting for Prospectus, or using the BP site.

The Sporting News publishes several outstanding sports statistics books including this one for baseball, and at a very reasonable price. Any information including when and where the player has been in the past, what college he attended, where he was born, and on and on. I follow all professional sports editions, each year, including baseball, football, hockey and basketball.

THIS A PERFECT BOOK FOR THE AVID BASEBALL FAN. TONS OF INFORMATION. WE BUY THE NEW ONE EVERY YEAR. NEVER DISAPPOINTED!

The stats are there, but the clarity isn't. The Baseball Register of the past--the 1950s and 1960s--displayed the trades individually, with asterisks, anchors, and letters, cited every trade separately, making it easier for the reader to know the context of the trade.

The book isn't what it was--the information is packed in, in an apparent attempt to save money and space. There are no photos, which there used to be; the paper is flat, not glossy. In truth, The Sporting News is deliberately publishing a product inferior to that which it delivered 40 years ago, and that is too bad.