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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004 [Paperback]

David S. Neft (Author), Richard M. Cohen (Author), Michael L. Neft (Author)
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February 1, 2004 Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball
The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004 covers the history of every player, every team, and every season from 1902 through 2003, with detailed statistics and text summaries, as well as full coverage of this year's exciting pennant race.

· Which team became the first in history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series?

· Who was the only player to hit a pinch-hit World Series home run?

· Who became the first to manage five straight pennant winners, and in what years did he do it?

· What 1970s team won a pennant with only one player hitting more than twenty homers, no player driving in eighty runs, no player stealing even ten bases, no player hitting .300, and only one pitcher winning more than fifteen games?

The answers to these and thousands of other baseball questions can be found in this fully up-to-date, fact-filled reference book.

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About the Author

David S. Neft, Michael Neft and Richard M. Cohen are noted sports historians and the authors of the The Sports Encyclopedia series. David Neft is a statistician and vice president of research for the Gannett Company. He lives in New York City. Cohen is deceased.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 816 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (February 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 031230479X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312304799
  • Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,085,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Martin Targano's Baseball Book Review", August 30, 2004
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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004 is a vastly entertaining encyclopedic reference/compendium that balances the exuberance and the excesses, the promise and the pitfalls of America'a national pasttime in a wonderfully exhaustive statistical context. The preponderance of literally millions of numbers and figures in this colossal book's content is a natural for the baseball stats junkie; it's arguably stronger than its major baseball competitor, Total Baseball:Ultimate... in the sense that it's not AS exhasutive, and this shorter degree of comprehensiveness if you will may sway single volume baseball encyclopedia purchasers towards a predilection for this one over Total Baseball. As a physical/tangible reference its less onerous or ponderous than Total BBL, and it indeed covers most any and every aspect of the great game of baseball you could ever want to know from the very popular statistical perspective. Indeed it's a mighty strong and entertaining tome. It's comprehensive content rivals just about anything out there these days.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great Stats- poor print, December 23, 2004
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The book is loaded with good baseball history and a great accumulation of stats but the print is so small that you will need a magnifying glass to read it. So much information is included that it would take at least two volumes to print it with type size we would feel comfortable with.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the baseball fanatic, January 13, 2009
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I don't know much about baseball. I bought this for my now ex-boyfriend some time ago. He really loved it because he is absolutely fanatical about baseball, and this book contains probably anything and everything you could want to know. The only thing I didn't like about it is that the print is really small and the pages are very thin.
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