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(4.5) | None | From ESPN, the sports experts, comes the most informative baseball compilation ever created--and the next best thing to watching the home team win! A baseball lover’s ultimate guide, based on a remarkable database compiled by the award-winning godfather of statistical baseball analysis, Pete Palmer, and edited by respected baseball historian and commentator Gary Gillette. Featuring totally revised and up-to-date statistics, this all-star encyclopedia is the most complete and accurate baseball database ever compiled. Brought to fans at an unbeatable price, it’s brimming with illuminating essays and information. There’s comprehensive year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history; all-time leaders in 150 categories; all-inclusive coverage of career interruptions due to wartime military service; and loads more stats and facts on teams, managers, and ballparks. "I want a bumper sticker: You can have my Baseball Encyclopedia when you tear it from my cold, dead hands.” -Bill James, Author of the Historical Baseball Abstract "Baseball fans haven’t been able to get this much for so little since baseball cards were a quarter a pack.”--Mat Olkin, writer and editor for USA Today and Sports Weekly… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (16)▾Book descriptions From ESPN, the sports experts, comes the most informative baseball compilation ever created--and the next best thing to watching the home team win! A baseball lover’s ultimate guide, based on a remarkable database compiled by the award-winning godfather of statistical baseball analysis, Pete Palmer, and edited by respected baseball historian and commentator Gary Gillette. Featuring totally revised and up-to-date statistics, this all-star encyclopedia is the most complete and accurate baseball database ever compiled. Brought to fans at an unbeatable price, it’s brimming with illuminating essays and information. There’s comprehensive year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history; all-time leaders in 150 categories; all-inclusive coverage of career interruptions due to wartime military service; and loads more stats and facts on teams, managers, and ballparks. "I want a bumper sticker: You can have my Baseball Encyclopedia when you tear it from my cold, dead hands.” -Bill James, Author of the Historical Baseball Abstract "Baseball fans haven’t been able to get this much for so little since baseball cards were a quarter a pack.”--Mat Olkin, writer and editor for USA Today and Sports Weekly ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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