The SABR Baseball List & Record Book

The SABR Baseball List & Record Book

by Society for American Baseball Research
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/03/2007

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From the authority on baseball research and statistics comes a vast and fascinating compendium of unique baseball lists and records.


The SABR Baseball List & Record Book is an expansive collection of pitching, hitting, fielding, home run, team, and rookie records not available online or in any other book. This is a treasure trove of baseball history for statistically minded baseball fans that's also packed with intriguing marginalia. For instance, on July 25, 1967, Chicago's Ken Berry ended Game Two of a doubleheader against Cleveland with a home run in the bottom of the sixteenth inning -- Chicago's second game-winning homer of the day. The comprehensive lists include Most Career Home Runs by Two Brothers (Tommie and Hank Aaron have 768), Most Seasons with 15 or More Wins (Cy Young and Greg Maddux each have 18), and Highest On Base Percentage in a Season by a Rookie (listing every rookie above .400).


Unlike other record books that only list the record holders -- say, most RBI by a rookie, held by Ted Williams with 145 -- SABR details every rookie to reach 100 RBI. Other record books might note the last pitcher in each league to steal home; here SABR has included every pitcher to do it. The book also includes a number of idiosyncratic features, such as a rundown of every player who has hit a triple and then stolen home, or every reliever who has won two games in one day. Many of the lists include a comments column for key historical notes and entertaining trivia (Bob Horner hit four home runs in a 1986 game, but his team lost). This is a must-have for every fan's library.


Edited by Lyle Spatz, Chairman of the Baseball Records Committee for SABR

ISBN:
9781416554561
9781416554561
Category:
Baseball
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-03-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scribner

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