The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball
by David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen
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"The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2007" covers the history of every player, every team, and every season from 1902 through 2006, with detailed statistics and text summaries, as well as full coverage of this year's exciting pennant race.-Which team became the first in history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series?-Who was the only player to pinch-hit a World Series home run?-Who became the first to manage five straight pennant winners, and in what years did he do it?-What show more 1970s team won a pennant with only one player hitting more than twenty homers, no player driving in eighty runs, no player stealing even ten bases, no player hitting .300, and only one pitcher winning more than fifteen games?The answers to these and thousands of other baseball questions can be found in this fully up-to-date, fact-filled reference book. show lessTags
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Every baseball geek needs one of these. It's biggest value is the pages of statistics. I used to like to pair this with the MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia edited by Joe Reichler, but that has been published in over a decade. Not being a sabrmetrician, I tend to stay away from Total Baseball.
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- Canonical title
- The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball
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- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Reference
- DDC/MDS
- 796.357 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games Ball sports Ball and stick sports Baseball
- LCC
- GV877 .N43 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
- BISAC
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- Members
- 190
- Popularity
- 172,736
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.96)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 30
- ASINs
- 3
