Total Baseball
by John Thorn, Pete Palmer (Editor)
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Contains statistics for over 13,000 major league players, starting lineups for teams since 1871, history, trades, scandals, and baseball lore.Tags
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A fine compendium, though the author's own evaluation system, especially for defense, has since been torn apart by Bill James in his Win Shares. Many good essays and almost every possible stat you'd want. Goes through the 1998 season.
Not as good as the title implies. Long on statistics and short on narrative and even some of the narratives run to forgettable musty corners of the sport, not necessarily interesting ones. I'm going back to the McMillian Encyclopedia of Baseball.
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- Canonical title
- Total Baseball
- Original title
- Total Baseball
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to the great pioneer of baseball history and record keeping, Henry Chadwick, and to today's keepers of the flame, the Society for American Baseball Research.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Reference, History
- DDC/MDS
- 796.357 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Ball sports Ball and stick sports Baseball
- LCC
- GV863 .A1 .T68 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
- BISAC
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- 311
- Popularity
- 102,333
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.21)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 10
