The obsessive reference for every baseball nut, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is a comprehensive, original, devour-it-like-salted-peanuts single-volume encyclopedia that marries history and statistics and delivers them team by team. Organizing by teams gives the wide viewhow do the Murderers Row Yankees compare to the Big Red Machine? The long viewwhat team has given the Red Sox the most trouble over the last 100 years? And the hidden viewname the team that went through all the 1990s without a Gold Glove winner. Its how the game is played, and now, finally, its presented in the way the game is best understood.
Created by baseball historian Dennis Purdy, a true buffs buff, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA offers the history of every existing major league baseball franchise told through narrative, bios, anecdotes, photographs, and the most comprehensive team statistics ever assembled in a single book. Every years record, standing, attendance, and primary starting lineup for each of baseballs 30 franchises. Top-10 leader lists for every major category (and some minor ones), plus all-time won-loss records versus all opponents. All the awardsMVP, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, Gold Glove. Manager records. Post-season records. Even retired uniform numbers. But the stats are just the beginningeach chapter contains entertaining thumbnail biographies of every franchises key players, recalling, for example, how the games greatest shortstop, Honus Wagner, was ecruited when spotted throwing rocks across a river. And sprinkled throughout are spicy team facts, bizarre anecdotes, statistical anomalies, and little-known gemslike what Babe Ruth said to Lou Gehrig after hitting his called shot homerun in the 1932 World Series.
Created by baseball historian Dennis Purdy, a true buffs buff, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA offers the history of every existing major league baseball franchise told through narrative, bios, anecdotes, photographs, and the most comprehensive team statistics ever assembled in a single book. Every years record, standing, attendance, and primary starting lineup for each of baseballs 30 franchises. Top-10 leader lists for every major category (and some minor ones), plus all-time won-loss records versus all opponents. All the awardsMVP, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, Gold Glove. Manager records. Post-season records. Even retired uniform numbers. But the stats are just the beginningeach chapter contains entertaining thumbnail biographies of every franchises key players, recalling, for example, how the games greatest shortstop, Honus Wagner, was ecruited when spotted throwing rocks across a river. And sprinkled throughout are spicy team facts, bizarre anecdotes, statistical anomalies, and little-known gemslike what Babe Ruth said to Lou Gehrig after hitting his called shot homerun in the 1932 World Series.
