The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

From ESPN, the sports experts, comes the most informative baseball compilation ever createdand the next best thing to watching the home team win! A baseball lover s ultimate guide, based on a remarkable database compiled by the award-winning godfather of statistical baseball analysis, Pete Palmer, and edited by respected baseball historian and commentator Gary Gillette. Featuring totally revised and up-to-date statistics, this all-star encyclopedia is the most complete and accurate baseball database ever compiled. Brought to fans at an unbeatable price, it s brimming with illuminating essays and information. There s comprehensive year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history; all-time leaders in 150 categories; all-inclusive coverage of career interruptions due to wartime military service; and loads more stats and facts on teams, managers, and ballparks. I want a bumper sticker: You can have my "Baseball Encyclopedia" when you tear it from my cold, dead hands. Bill James, Author of the "Historical Baseball Abstract" Baseball fans haven t been able to get this much for so little since baseball cards were a quarter a pack. Mat Olkin, writer and editor for "USA Today "and "Sports Weekly""