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Total Baseball edited by John Thorn & Pete Palmer w/ dust jacket 1989
Total Baseball edited by John Thorn & Pete Palmer 2294 pages Almost 3 inhes thick
A baseball library in one volume. More stats than any other book.
13000 player records plus the exciting new numbers now used to measure performance. Scores of feature articles by the game's top writers
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1989
Contents
The Game Off the Field
30. The Business of Baseball, Steve Mann 628
31. Baseball and the Law, Gary D. Halley 642
32. Trades and Free Agency, Eliot Cohen 647
33. Baseball Commissioners, A. D. Suehsdorf 656
34. The Farm System, Bob Hoie 661
35. The Fans, Paul D. Adomites 665
36. Concessions, Paul D. Adomites 669
37. Baseball on the Air, Paul D. Adomites 671
38. Baseball Betting, Phil Erwin 674
PART TWO
Introduction 679
The Annual Record
The Annual Record 697
The Player Register
The Player Register 921
The Pitcher Register
The Pitcher Register 1569
The All-Time Leaders
The All-Time Leaders 2009
Lifetime Leaders 2011
Single Season Leaders 2044
The Rosters
The Team Rosters 2075
The Manager Roster 2129
The Coach Roster 2153
The Umpire Roster 2159
Home-Road Statistics
Home-Road Statistics 2167
Appendices
1. Rules and Scoring, Thomas R. Heitz 2217
2. The City Series, Frederick Ivor-Campbell 2262
3. The Ultimate Baseball Library, Paul D. Adomites 2272
Notes on Contributors 2283
Glossary of Statistical Terms 2286
Team and League Abbreviations 2294
THE WORLD'S #1 BOOK
FOR AMERICA'S #1 GAME
From the first pitch in the spring training opener to the last out in the World Series, TOTAL BASEBALL is the one reference book you'll want at your fingertips. No other book has as many statistics. No other book has such a wealth of feature articles touching on every aspect of the sport. No other book even attempts what the authors-unsurpassed experts who revolutionized baseball record keeping-have successfully accomplished here. It's a complete baseball library in a single volume.
THE STATISTICS YOU NEED
Unlike any other baseball book, TOTAL BASEBALL gives you all the traditional measurements plus dozens of new statistics, including Bill James' Runs Created and Tom Boswell's Total Average. These tabulations illuminate baseball history from 1876 to today. For example, Production will provide a truer indication of value than Batting Average. Runs Saved tells you who the great hurlers really are. Total Player Rating measures a player's contribution to his team through combined efforts at bat, in the field, and on base. These stats help explain why a certain team won the pennant despite a mediocre team batting average or ERA, while a seemingly superior team didn't make it.
Here is just a handful of the book's unique statistical highlights: home/road breakdowns for all teams plus park factors for every stadium; home runs allowed by pitchers; caught stealing data and stolen base percentages; on base percentages calculated for every player since walks were first recorded; a radically revised manager roster; coach and umpire rosters; and much more.
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