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The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition (ESPN Pro Baseball Encyclopedia) [Paperback]

Gary Gillette (Editor), Pete Palmer (Editor), Peter Gammons (Foreword)
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March 18, 2007 ESPN Pro Baseball Encyclopedia
From the sports experts at ESPN comes the most informative baseball compilation ever created—and the next best thing to watching the home team win! 
“I want a bumper sticker: You can have my Baseball Encyclopedia when you tear it from my cold, dead hands.”  —Bill James, author of the Historical Baseball Abstract

“Baseball fans haven’t been able to get this much for so little since baseball cards were a quarter a pack.”  —Mat Olkin, writer and editor for USA Today and Sports Weekly
 
A baseball lover’s ultimate guide, based on a remarkable database compiled by the award-winning godfather of statistical baseball analysis, Pete Palmer, and edited by baseball historian and commentator Gary Gillette. Featuring totally revised and up-to-date statistics, this all-star encyclopedia presents the most complete and accurate portrait of the game of baseball ever compiled. Brought to fans at an unbeatable price, it’s brimming with illuminating essays and information. There’s comprehensive year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history; all-time leaders in 150 categories; all-inclusive coverage of career interruptions due to wartime military service; the most authoritative Negro League stats anywhere; and countless fascinating data about teams, managers, and ballparks. Plus every record ever set is noted and every active major league player’s numbers updated, with a detailed record of everything that happened in pro baseball this year.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 1824 pages
  • Publisher: Sterling (March 18, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1402747713
  • ISBN-13: 978-1402747717
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 2.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #840,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars a book that will keep a baseball fan busy, January 8, 2008
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this was a x-mas present for my uncle who said he'll be busy w/ this for months. it also weighs about 50lbs.
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5.0 out of 5 stars All you ever wanted to know about Baseball., August 31, 2007
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Reviews and presents the 'greats' and the not so 'great' in an apostolic and alphabetical order by career importance and also by relevant statistics. This is the sign-off item for any MLB argument and for the Prevention--of any dubious 'know-it-alls' as labeled by the conformist's predilections. Retorts even the neophyte to the game's roots of the 'movement' of the players of all times and of all creeds and nations. Introduces an ingenious formula for including in the documentation those numbers not usually graphed or figured out that any fan would like to know, i.e., "sabermetrics". Who was pitching, hitting and circling the bases when records, both good and poor, were being tallied and posted on the center field boards, and now in the hand-held instruments of reprisal (cell-phones, iPods, whatever's). No sports fan can be without this volume: three strikes--you're out the plate! If you don't get this tome.
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