The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia

Author: Peter Palmer

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 1840

ISBN-13: 9781402747717

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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.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 1782

ISBN-13: 9781402736254

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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.

Negro Leaguers and the Hall of Fame
Negro Leaguers and the Hall of Fame

Author: Steven R. Greenes

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1476672687

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Since 1971, 35 Negro League baseball players and executives have been admitted to the Hall of Fame. The Negro League Hall of Fame admissions process, which has now been conducted in four phases over a 50-year period, can be characterized as idiosyncratic at best. Drawing on baseball analytics and surveys of both Negro League historians and veterans, this book presents an historical overview of NLHOF voting, with an evaluation of whether the 35 NL players selected were the best choices. Using modern metrics such as Wins Above Replacement (WAR), 24 additional Negro Leaguers are identified who have Hall of Fame qualifications. Brief biographies are included for HOF-quality players and executives who have been passed over, along with reasons why they may have been excluded. A proposal is set forth for a consistent and orderly HOF voting process for the Negro Leagues.

Growing Up with Baseball
Growing Up with Baseball

Author: Gary Land

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780803229754

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An anecdotal history reveals the sport of baseball as it was watched, played and lived by everyday people from the 1930s to the 1990s, such as a missionary's son learning to read by comparing sports reports with announcements over the radio.