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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 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.

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.

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.

I Have the 2000 edition this is a great read on every team from 1900-to now this is very enjoyable you can see how much Home Runs the 1927 Yankees had are how good Musial was in 1948.I am 19 years old and baseball to this day is the best sport