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The beholder in this volume is a team of editors from THE SPORTING NEWS, the publication that has chronicled the rise of the professional game from its club-sport infancy to the multimillion dollar National Football League that exists today ...
Presents a collection of brief biographical sketches of the top one hundred baseball players of all-time according the the "Sporting News" and includes information on career statistics and teams on which they played.
Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 ...
Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.
A couple of Hall of Fame pitchers take up the next two spots in the rankings, with Herb Pennock and Waite Hoyt compiling numbers so similar during their years in pinstripes that their places here are almost interchangeable.
Depicts leading batters, with their individual statistics and a quotation about them, and traces the changes in batting success over the history of the game.
The authors of this work looked at statistics, the different eras, the “five tools,” and even oral legend in compiling this list of the 100 diamond dandies of the second millennium.
Recounts memorable games, top individual performances, and the most significant games in baseball history, and includes box scores and background information
Berman of the "Today" show steps up to the plate and lays out who he thinks are the 25 greatest baseball players in history. Full color.
Profiles each of the 254 members of baseball's Hall of Fame, from the pioneering heroes of the nineteenth century to the stars of the modern era.