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May 13, 2015 · In addition to the index of guides, here are some useful reference sources on the subject of annual baseball guides: Baseball Guides Galore – A history of baseball guides, who published them, and when, written by Ralph E. LinWeber
- The Boys of Summer – The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field. ✍️ Author: Roger Kahn. 📆 Year Published: 1972. 📘 Genre: History, Biographies and Autobiographies.
- Ball Four – The Final Pitch. ✍️ Author: Jim Bouton. 📆 Year Published: 1970. 📘 Genre: Biographies and Autobiographies. Jim Bouton’s “Ball Four” broke the silence on the reality of professional baseball, forever changing how the game was perceived by fans.
- The Glory of Their Times – The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. ✍️ Author: Lawrence S. Ritter. 📆 Year Published: 1966.
- Moneyball – The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. ✍️ Author: Michael Lewis. 📆 Year Published: 2003. 📘 Genre: Biographies and Autobiographies, Strategy and Coaching, History.
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A great deal of baseball research material has moved onto the Web, and more is coming all the time. But, so far, most of that material has been statistical and tabular. The slowest material to migrate has been narrative — history, biography, analysis — and books remain a good source of information. In addition, some material which should have moved...
This class of work has been most heavily affected by the web, with virtually all of the statistical material available in these volumes moving there. One, however, retains some relevance. Thorn, John, Pete Palmer, et al., eds. Total Baseball, Seventh Edition: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball. New York: Total Sports, 2003, 2,502 pp...
Guidebooks have been produced since 1860. Over the years, they have contained various things, from constitutions and rules to instructional material. The underlying theme, however, has always been a review of the previous season with a fairly thorough statistical compilation. For the 19th century, they are a primary source. The titles are not exact...
SABR’s Emerald Guide to Baseball. 2007-present. Society for American Baseball Research. The only annual guide currently being published. Contains many features not found in earlier guides, especially fuller minor league information. Visit the Research Resources page to download PDFs of any past Emerald Guide. The Sporting News Official Baseball Gui...
The Sporting News Official Baseball Register. 1940-2006. St. Louis: The Sporting News. Most of this material has been superseded by web-based resources, but nuggets of information such as nicknames, ethnicity and pronunciation are scattered through the volumes. The Register contains players’ career records with year-by-year statistics, including mi...
Dickson, Paul, ed. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009, 974 pp. An extremely useful, annotated list of baseball terms, their origins and meanings and references to their first appearance in print. A must. This book is the third edition, with the original from Facts on File in 1989 and the second from Harcourt Brace in 1999....
Book reviews of baseball books can be hard to find. Several sources are Nine (see Baseball Print Periodicals), Base Ball and Black Ball (semi-annual journals from McFarland) and the newsletter of SABR’s Bibliography Research Committee. The short-lived SABR Review of Books (annually 1986-1990) and its successor The Cooperstown Review: A Forum of Bas...
Many of the books cited here, and others you may decide you need for your research, are out of print. Your local library may be able to find them through inter-library loan. Here is a short list of used book dealers who specialize in baseball books. All are SABR members and all deal through the mail: 1. R.”Bobby” Plapinger (baseballbooks@opendoor.c...
The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball. Macmillan, 1993 - Sports & Recreation - 2857 pages. Recognized worldwide as the authoritative source for...
SABR 50 at 50: Baseball Books. As part of the SABR 50 at 50 project to commemorate the organization’s fiftieth anniversary, we offer 50 baseball books worth reading from the past 50 years. There have been thousands of books on baseball published since SABR was founded in August 1971. That’s far more than any other sport.
The Baseball Encyclopedia is a baseball reference book first published by Macmillan in 1969. Nine further editions of the book were released between 1974 and 1996. The Baseball Encyclopedia features statistical summaries for Major League Baseball (MLB) players.
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Mar 27, 2024 · These six books about baseball not only provide an enjoyable immersion in the sport but also illuminate some broader aspects of societies—America is not the only one—enraptured by it.
