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At last, here is baseball history never told until now! As revealed for the first time in Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters, baseball fans finally will learn who are the game's 50 greatest batters of the 20th century and who were the true American and National League batting champions each season since 1900.
Despite baseball's seemingly countless official statistics, none measures batting proficiency accurately or permits batters from different eras to be ranked objectively. By applying new, relevant and easy to calculate batting statistics, the true proficiency of batters past, present and future can be illuminated as never before.
Had these new statistics been available to baseball from the beginning, the game could have avoided underrating many truly great batters while overrating many others who have enjoyed inflated reputations. Baseball now can set the record straight.
Illustrated with historic photos of the 50 greatest batters of all-time obtained from the George Brace collection, Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters provides a provocative and fascinating insight into baseball's heretofore hidden history. The book will compel many thoughtful fans and experts to reassess their cherished beliefs about many of their favorite baseball players.
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"Stephen Grimble's RGA separates myth from reality and not only identifies the greatest hitters in baseball history but also provides today's general managers with a simple and effective statistic to evaluate modern day batters who command salaries in excess of $10 million per year." Ruly Carpenter, Former President of the Philadelphia Phillies
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Author Stephen Grimble is certain to get arguments from fans who read his provocative book Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters. Grimble names the 50 greatest hitters of the 20th century by using four methods. Top five: Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg. -- Hal Bodley, USA Today, 6/19/98
Baseball fans in love with statistics--and it comes with the territory--will be interested in Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters. Stephen Grimble offers several new statistics that indicate the "real" value of major-league hitters, most crucially what he calls the run generation index (RGI). Like Bill James and other numbers mavens, Grimble rightly finds batting average and other traditional statistics insufficient. He has reasons why his numbers are more effective than those of James and his cohorts. -- Gary Mullinax, Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, DE 4/19/98
Baseball fans in love with statistics--and it comes with the territory--will be interested in Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters. Stephen Grimble offers several new statistics that indicate the "real" value of major-league hitters, most crucially what he calls the run generation index (RGI). Like Bill James and other numbers mavens, Grimble rightly finds batting average and other traditional statistics insufficient. He has reasons why his numbers are more effective than those of James and his cohorts. -- Gary Mullinax, Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, DE 4/19/98
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- PublisherCedar Tree Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1892142007
- ISBN 13 9781892142009
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages198
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Allen Lewis. There also is a signed letter from Stephen Grimble to Allen Lewis, a member of the Committee on Baseball Veterans at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, dated January 10, 2000. Grimble has also enclosed his 1998 and 1999 Season Supplements, making this a unique copy of this very limited printing from a small local press. Grimble has devised a new batting statistic, run generation average (RGA), which is RBI's plus runs scored divided by plate appearances. Grimble ranks Babe Ruth first, followed by Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg. #9-12 are Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Frank Robinson and Dick Allen. Very good condition of a truly rare book. I have hundreds of signed baseball titles as well as books on the Best of Baseball in stock. Discounts are available on multiple purchases. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-664826183
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