Minor League Baseball Stars Career Records Compiled by the Society for American Baseball Research

Some soiling of the covers, but the book and its contents are clean and tight. ; The first edition of this important work that compiles the career records of minor league players and highlights the features of certain outstanding game and season records - pointing out that every significant season record made in the majors was bettered in the minors with one exception, three base hits (held by Owen Wilson in 1912). One of the purposes of the research project was to reflect the importance of the game played to those parts of the country not represented by the majors which were concentrated in the Northeast and Middle West. "The minor leagues have been much more representative of North American baseball." Expansion of the majors didn't occur until 1957 (California) and 1962 (Texas). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 125 pages.