The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia

The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
Author: Peter Palmer
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 1840
Release: 2007
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781402747717

This baseball lover's ultimate guide features totally revised and up-to-date statistics and every active major league player's updated numbers.

The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia

The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
Author: Peter Palmer
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 1790
Release: 2006
Genre: Baseball
ISBN: 9781402736254

Details statistics from United States baseball teams and players from 1900 through the previous season, including draft information, and provides lists of award winners and world champion teams.

The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia

The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
Author: Gary Gillette
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1880
Release: 2008
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781402760518

Details statistics from United States baseball teams and players from before 1900 through the previous season, including draft information, and provides lists of award winners and world champion teams.

Total Baseball

Total Baseball
Author: Pete Palmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Baseball
ISBN: 9781892129031

Total Baseball VI is a complete baseball library in a single book. World famous for its originality and comprehensive reference value, this encyclopedia inspired the formation of Total Sports, Inc., and the publication of Total Hockey and Total Football. Now updated with the latest stats, records, rosters, registers, histories, and insightful essays, it makes a great gift for any baseball fan. This latest edition includes Bob Creamer's special commemorative tribute to Casey Stengle and a special section on the history of the home run.

Baseball

Baseball
Author: David Pietrusza
Publisher: Total/Sports Illustrated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Baseball
ISBN: 9781892129345

Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia is the perfect companion to the ultimate classic baseball reference work, Total Baseball. Whereas Total Baseball, now in its sixth edition, lists the statics of every player in major league history, Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia reveals the stories of 2,000 of the national pastime's greatest movers and shakers.

ESPN Southeastern Conference Football Encyclopedia

ESPN Southeastern Conference Football Encyclopedia
Author: Michael MacCambridge
Publisher: ESPN Books
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2009
Genre: Football
ISBN: 034551386X

THE ESPN SEC FOOTBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA INCLUDES • expanded profiles and histories of all twelve Southeastern Conference football programs, as well as former SEC schools Georgia Tech and Tulane • original essays on what makes each SEC program unique written by such experts as Winston Groom (Alabama), Lou Holtz (South Carolina), and Buster Olney (Vanderbilt) • two-page record books for each school, with all-time and annual leaders • all-time teams, college and pro football hall of fame inductees, first-round draft choices, and retired numbers for every school • a complete bowl history for each team, including box scores • a history of the Southeastern Conference written by Chuck Culpepper, and the all-time SEC team as selected by Ivan Maisel, author of A War in Dixie

The Baseball Encyclopedia

The Baseball Encyclopedia
Author: BASEBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Total Pages: 1560
Release: 1974
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Author: Bill James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 1026
Release: 2010-05-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1439106932

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.

2015 Baseball Forecaster

2015 Baseball Forecaster
Author: Ron Shandler
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1633190218

The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2014 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.

Swinging '73

Swinging '73
Author: Matthew Silverman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0762793236

Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending. Stuck in a rut, baseball was dying. Then Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, a second-division club with wife-swapping pitchers, leaving the House That Ruth Built not with a slam but a simper. He vowed not to interfere—before soon changing his mind. Across town, Tom Seaver led the Mets’ stellar pitching line-up, and iconic outfielder Willie Mays was preparing to say goodbye. For months, the Mets, under Yogi Berra, couldn’t get it right. Meanwhile, the A’s were breaking a ban on facial hair while maverick owner Charlie Finley was fighting to keep them underpaid. But beneath the muttonchops and mayhem, lay another world. Elvis commanded a larger audience than the Apollo landings. A Dodge Dart cost $2,800, gas was a quarter per gallon. A fiscal crisis loomed; Vietnam had ended, the vice president resigned, and Watergate had taken over. It was one of the most exciting years in the game’s history, the first with the designated hitter and the last before arbitration and free agency. The two World Series opponents went head-to-head above the baby steps of a dynasty that soon dwarfed both league champions. It was a turbulent time for the country and the game, neither of which would ever be the same again.