This historical baseball sourcebook features exclusive summaries of every major league season, including standings, league leaders, in-depth team profiles, and highlights.
The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy Daniel R. Levitt. Golenbock, Peter. The Spirit ofSt. Louis: A History ofthe St. ... STATS All-Time Major League Handbook. Morton Grove, Ill.: STATS Publishing, 1998. ———. Bill James Presents .
From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.
An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series.
A complex portrait of a larger-than-life character in the annals of baseball, this book is also an inside history of how the sport?s competitive environment evolved and how the Yankees came to dominate it.
Giants manager Dusty Baker MOST RBI IN TWO YEARS saw something in Kent , SECOND BASEMEN however , and installed him in the cleanup spot after he spent his first month in San Rogers Hornsby Francisco batting fifth .
This remarkably comprehensive book opens with an historical introduction to the league, including detailed information about its origins and failure.
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Who are the recently retired players that match-up to the stars of baseball's past? What players not in the Baseball Hall of Fame measure up to those already in the Hall? The Baseball Same Game provides these answers and more.
... so his defense is probably the reason he was finding few nibbles as a free agent in the offseason . Left Fielder , Team B.J. Surhoff , Bal Marty Cordova , Min Henry Rodriguez , Mon Bobby Higginson , Det Barry Bonds ...
From 1921 through 1925 St. Louis Cardinals' second baseman Rogers Hornsby averaged an incredible .402 batting average (BA = Hits/At-Bats) over that five-year period. Hornsby, considered by many baseball historians as the greatest ...