The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia

By Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer, Sana Khatri

Book Overview

Now officially endorsed by ESPN Based on an amazing database created by award-winning baseball analyst Pete Palmer, and edited by baseball commentator and historian Gary Gillette, this is the most complete and accurate baseball reference ever compiled-completely updated through 2004, and including a foreword by ESPN's Peter Gammons. "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 Today and Sports Weekly"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140272568X
• ISBN13: 9781402725685
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 1714 Pages
• Weight: 6.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.8" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Stats and more

As a frequent reader of previous Baseball Encyclopedias, this ESPN version does a great job providing historical statistics and higher level strategyies and implications.

Baseball Encyclopedia

This is a wonderful and reasonably priced book for referencing the statistical record of the greatest game ever invented.

THE " MUST HAVE" MLB BOOK!

ESPN again delivers as their 2008 MLB Encyclopedia is a baseball statistics lover's dream come true! Chock full of player information and stats, I've been utilizing my copy for a few months already!

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ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia 2005

It was great it told me everything I need to know about baseball. This is the best book in recorded history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!