Baseball Bibliography (Four Volume Set) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786415312 ISBN 13: 9780786415311

Publisher: McFarland, 2005

Synopsis

Baseball, more than any other sport, inspires widespread research and publication. The literature of baseball is vast and continues to grow at a fantastic pace. This second edition of Myron Smith's acclaimed Baseball Bibliography contains some 57,000 entries, bringing the 1986 book up to date with the tremendous body of baseball literature published in the last 20 years. The resulting four-volume set is the largest and most comprehensive non-electronic, non-database, print bibliography on any major American sport.

Citations include books and monographs; scholarly papers; government documents; doctoral dissertations; masters' theses; poetry and fiction; novels; pro team yearbooks; college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs; commercially produced yearbooks; and periodical and journal articles, including the first-ever complete analysis of the major diamond-oriented contents of Baseball Magazine, Baseball Digest, Sport, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN: The Magazine, among others. Data include biographical references to 3,904 major league players, and an appendix offers a full list of the 1,712 journals, periodicals and magazines cited. The work is fully indexed by subject and name.

About this title

About the Author

Prolific author Myron J. Smith, Jr., is emeritus library director and professor at Tusculum University, Greeneville, Tennessee.

Reviews

Truth in advertising meets an obsession--rarely is a reference book as appropriately titled as this one. Without question, this is the bibliography of baseball. Smith, the compiler of multiple subject bibliographies, has here updated and revised his Baseball: A Comprehensive Bibliography (McFarland, 1986).

The first edition, including two supplements, provided more than 25,000 citations to published works on baseball. The new edition includes more than 57,000 references, many with brief annotations. The structure remains the same, with cited works divided into seven categories, among them "Reference Works," "Professional Leagues and Teams," and "Rules and Techniques." The final category, "Individual Bibliography," takes up much of volumes 2 and 4 and all of volume 3. Helpful appendixes in volume 4 include a list of the 1,712 journals, magazines, and newspapers cited as well as a very comprehensive name and subject index. The list of publications is impressive, including sources from history, advertising, sociology, popular culture, the trade literature, and many other areas. After using this work, one is left with the distinct impression that Smith has simply left no stone unturned within the English-language published periodical literature.

From the obscure to the famous, the small-time to the big leagues, The Baseball Bibliography is delightfully more comprehensive than one could reasonably expect. It is international in scope, covers an extremely wide range of publications, and is well-indexed, with lots of helpful cross-references. Smith's fixation is transformed here into a wonderful gift to baseball researchers at all levels. This is simply the unrivaled champion of sports bibliographies. Highly recommended for serious baseball reference and research collections at all levels. Jeff Kosokoff
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Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786415312
• ISBN 13: 9780786415311
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1758