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Title: Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball (Total Baseball, 7th Ed) by John Thorn, Pete Palmer, Michael Gershman, Matthew Silverman, Sean Lahman, Greg Spira ISBN: 1-930844-01-8 Publisher: Total Sports Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exhaustive and authoritative
Comment: This reference has more or less picked up the torch from the late lamented "Baseball Encyclopedia," and is indispensible for serious fans (and probably casual ones as well).
Included in the hefty (nearly 2,000 pages) volume is everything you'd expect (player stats, franchise histories, postseason results) and a number of things you might not (Curt Smith's wonderful roster of radio/TV announcers, for instance). It's perfect for whiling away the hours on rainy Sunday afternoons, and invaluable for settling arguments or answering trivia questions.
It would be nice if the next edition included a few more historical essays such as those found in its NFL counterpart, "Total Football II." That's a minor quibble, however, and perhaps impractical considering the voluminous size of the current book. All in all, this is a must-buy for baseball lovers.
Rating: 5
Summary: simply the greatest baseball reference book ever written.
Comment: Total Baseball is to baseball what the Beatles' songbook is to rock n' roll music, with authors Thorn and Palmer the Lennon-McCartney of baseball composers. It is a work of mind-numbing thoroughness, the baseball reference to end all references. The prose section includes the story of baseball from every region of the world. Also included are "The True Father of Baseball" and a lively new section of quotes. There are dozens of other sections, including the complete voting for every MVP award ever bestowed and diagrams -- including fence distances -- of every Major League park ever played in. Want to find out the Brooklyn Dodgers total attendance the year before they left for Los Angeles or the attendance of any other team in a any other season? It's in here. The register includes complete records of the nearly 15,000 men who have ever tied on spikes. The statistical derivations, including algorithms, are the standards and most ambitious ever done. For the rue fan, this is it: nearly 2,700 pages of baseball bliss.
Rating: 5
Summary: If only it were a textbook for a dream grad-school course!
Comment: "Total Baseball" is fantastic, pure and simple. It does have its short-comings, of course (for example, I agree that full, basic fielding statistics are a necessity, especially since the authors' fielding runs statistic is very flawed; it would also be great if the book had a catalog of trades, like the "Encyclopedia" has had), but it more than makes up for these minor faults with some of the best statistics available and almost 300 pages devoted to original history, analysis and opinion. This book helps settle old arguments, but it never fails to incite new (but always more informed) feuds as well. New hall-of-fame caliber players (just look at Cupid Childs's stellar career!) make themselves known to the reader, and inspire further investigation into the history of the game: Why has Childs been overlooked? How did he turn the still evolving rules of the 1890s to his advantage?) This is truly a Bible, and, along with fresh "Baseball Prospectus" editions in the years that intervene between new editions, makes up the cornerstone of my baseball library.
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Title: The 2004 Bill James Handbook (2003 statistics) by Bill James ISBN: 0879462582 Publisher: ACTA Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James ISBN: 0743227220 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Total Football II : The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League by Bob Carroll, Total Sports ISBN: 0062701746 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Baseball Desk Reference by Lawrence T. Lorimer ISBN: 0789483920 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia by Kenneth A. Shouler, Bob Ryan, Sam Smith, Leonard Koppett, Bob Bellotti, Ken Shouler ISBN: 1894963016 Publisher: SportClassic Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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