Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Allen Barra (Author), Bob Costas (Foreword)
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Published by Bison Books, 2008
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- Title
- Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
- Author
- Allen Barra (Author), Bob Costas (Foreword)
- Publisher
- Bison Books
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803217633
- ISBN 13
- 9780803217638
Who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? At their peak, who was more valuable, Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams? If Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, and Roger Clemens had pitched at the same time against the same hitters, who would have won the most games? If Jackie Robinson had been white, would he be deserving of the Hall of Fame? Who was the greatest all-around player of the last century? Clearing the Bases is the first book to tackle these and many other of baseballs most intriguing questions and offer hard, sensible answersanswers based on exhaustive research and analysis. Sports journalist Allen Barra, whose weekly sports column By the Numbers attracted millions of fans and whose outspoken opinions are discussed regularly on National Public Radio, takes on baseballs toughest arguments. Using stats and methods he himself has developed, Barra takes you to the heart of baseball's ultimate questionWho's
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Allen Barra is a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, and the New York Sun and is the author of several books, includingThe Last Coach: A Life of Paul Bear Bryant and Big Play: Barra on Football.
Bob Costas is a sportscaster for the NBC network.
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