eShop USA > Books > The Midsummer Classic: The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game
The Midsummer Classic: The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - A Baseball Almanac Source
Baseball Almanac ([website]) has the most extensive collection of All-Star related data on the Internet. This book has even more! Incredible research, great sources, tons of data, and an annex that by itself is worth the price of the book. Four stars instead of five due to a few inconsistencies between the rosters, lineups, & boxscores, but a must have resource for the hardcore baseball fan interested in our Midsummer Classic.
Rating:  - The reference for All-Star game information
I collect baseball reference books and this one is right on the shelf closest to my desk by my Total Baseball, my Baseball Encyclopedia and my Baseball Biographical Encylopedia. It contains wonderful leaderboards of all-star information and play-by-play of every all-star game. For instance, the area describing Pete Rose's mad dash home to win the game has the full inning summary: Torre grounds out, Clemente grounds out, Rose singles, Grabarkewitz singles (Rose to 2nd) and Hickman singles (Rose scores). Every inning of every All-Star game has this level of detail. Nowhere else is this information available.
My only complaint is the lack of pictures. While it kept the cost of production down, it does seem to be a feature you would want to have.
Rating: - Great reference book, but could have been better
This book presents each All-Star game (1933-2000) with textual background, box score, rosters & starting lineups, complete play-by-play, and a photo or two. The book has great reference value. The text, though, is fairly wooden : useful but gracelessly flat - a real disappointment considering the colorful and often dramatic subject matter. Still, a highly recommended purchase for all baseball fans, not just historians.
Recently viewed PC Hardware:
Compaq Presario V2405US 14" Laptop (Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ processor, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive)
|
Toshiba Satellite X205-S9349 17-inch Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7100, 2 GB RAM, 240 GB Hard DRive, HD SuperMulti DVD Drive, Vista Premium)
|
Toshiba Qosmio F25-AV205 15.4" Laptop (Intel Pentium M Processor 750 (Centrino), 1024 MB RAM, 100 GB Hard Drive, SuperMulti Dbl Layer Drive)
|
ViewSonic P810 21" CRT Monitor
|
Toshiba Satellite A305-S6853 15.4-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Fusion
|
| |
 |
