From Library Journal
Few baseball fans--unless they are true diehards or baseball scholars--know that the National League and the American Association played post-season games during the late 1800s (the forerunners of the World Series), or that city and state championships were played in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago as late as 1942. For people interested in those games as well as in modern American and National League playoffs, this provides detailed box scores (including defensive statistics for early games) and summaries of individual games and series. Technically, the type, especially for the box scores, is clear and easy to read (unlike newspaper box scores). The index refers only to players named in the text, not in the box scores. Some discrepancies in box scores are not clarified in the text. Lansche also covers recent playoffs when American or National League teams finished the season in a tie, and the 1981 season games played in the wake of the players' strike. For libraries whose clients include baseball researchers or serious fans.
- Sue Kamm, Los Angeles
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Sue Kamm, Los Angeles
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
