The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball - Softcover

Neft, David S.; Cohen, Richard M.; Neft, Michael L.

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9780312181833: The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312181833 ISBN 13: 9780312181833

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1998

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Perfect for anyone who is a fan of baseball, a guide covers the history of every player and team from 1901 through 1997 and includes researched statistics, significant game developments, all-time batting and pitching leaders, award winners, Hall of Fame inductees, and more. Original.

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Statistics are to baseball as nails are to carpentry: they define, inform, and hold the game together. When the teams fly south for spring training, fans, eager to sort through and argue over the numbers, flock to the sports shelves for the statistics. The Sports Encyclopedia has what baseball aficionados want. From 1901 through 1997, the reference supplies updated and revised lifetime numbers for every player, plus seasonal summaries of each team's performance. In addition, there are details of every playoff and World Series game ever played, profiles of every no-hitter since 1901, updated stats on RBIs, on-base percentages, and fielding, plus classic baseball legends and intriguing trivia. As salaries and sports politics get murky, it's refreshing to surround yourself with pages and pages of solid, quantitative information.

From the Publisher:

"A must for every baseball fan...A superb reference book." --The Sporting News

"It wouldn't be a baseball season without an updated version of The Sports Encyclopedia." --Tampa Tribune & Times

"The only encyclopedia with complete, annual updated editions featuring yearly reviews...plus playoffs and World Series recaps." --USA Today

"Year in and year out, The indispensable reference." --Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer

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