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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2007 (Sports Encyclopedia Baseball)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570973021
EAN: 9780312363598
ISBN: 0312363591
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 864
Publication Date: February 06, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: February 06, 2007
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Editorial Review:
The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2007 covers the history of every player, every team, and every season from 1902 through 2006, 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 pinch-hit a 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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Rating: - Baseball stats from a different perspective
It took quite a while, but I actually read "Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2007" from cover to cover. I have gone through quite a few other baseball encyclopedias in the past and this one is certainly "different." Instead of just an alphabetical list of each player, the book goes season-by-season and lists the rosters and statistics of every player that played on the team each year. League leaders in an individual category are highlighted in bold. This gives a different perspective of how, say, a ... Read More
Rating: - A must for baseball nuts and historians.
I never get tired of this book. It features every team with every stat of every player from 1901 to the present. If you want to know what Dimaggio batted in 1938, you can look it up, as Casey Stengel once said. Every league leader in his category is highlighted. The most fascinating revelation is that back in old days, players stats often took a drastic downturn after they reached 30, and even before that. Is is better nutrition, training or steroids? Probably all of the above. Anyway, if you're ... Read More
Rating: - Baseball Stats Nut
I get my kicks researching Baseball statistics. This product is the most complete Baseball compendium I have ever read. It answers remember when questions (who played third base for the 1963 Cleveland Indians?). It answers where a prominent player got his start. It has every team back to the early history of the game and each player on it and their year by year statistics (batting average, stolen bases, number of wins, ERA, etc.) A must have for the true Baseball nut.
Rating: - Still the Best
One doesn't need esoteric statistics and error-laden formulas based on assumptions -- some valid and some false -- to evaluate players. This reference book was the best. It is still the best. Why? Because it contains all that is important.
Rating: - Indespensible
Although I no longer buy the annual editions (I am down to every other year now), this is still the most indespensible and most referred-to baseball reference I own. With an essay for each baseball season from 1901-2006, individual statistics grouped by year and team, career statistics and leaders, annual leaders, active leaders through the 2006 season, and much more, this is a great browsing book as well, and the price is always a bargain.
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