The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004

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Summary: One of the Best sport books
Review: I Have the 2000 edition this is a great read on every team from 1900-to now this is very enjoyable you can see how much Home Runs the 1927 Yankees had are how good Musial was in 1948.I am 19 years old and baseball to this day is the best sport

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Summary: Baseball Lover's Heaven
Review: My first edition of this tome was a gift in 1974, and as a middle-school kid I absorbed stats and wowed friends and teachers with my ability to rattle them off. I bought an updated edition in 1985 or so, pored over the more recent statistics and read each season's summary with renewed interest.

Now, approaching 40 years old, I'm just as diehard a baseball fan and still love the Neft & Cohen baseball encyclopedia. The season summaries are well-paced and helpful, and the all-star game boxes and playoff and World Series boxes and recaps always bring back memories. I love the year-by-year format with the complete roster and stats for each team--if you're a Diamond Mind Baseball buff and want every last player who made an appearance on a roster, the stats for even the least-known players are included, so you'll be able to input every last digit.

Sure, there's the occasional mistake or typo--with the sheer volume of numbers inputted, there's simply no way not to have a goof every now and then. But the 2004 edition is very clean and easy to read. If you haven't updated your library recently, why not take the plunge at this very good price! And let me add that I'm looking forward to presenting my young son with his own copy a few years from now as his love for baseball develops, in just the way my father did with me a generation ago.

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Summary: Great Stats- poor print
Review: The book is loaded with good baseball history and a great accumulation of stats but the print is so small that you will need a magnifying glass to read it. So much information is included that it would take at least two volumes to print it with type size we would feel comfortable with.

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Summary: "Martin Targano's Baseball Book Review"
Review: The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004 is a vastly entertaining encyclopedic reference/compendium that balances the exuberance and the excesses, the promise and the pitfalls of America'a national pasttime in a wonderfully exhaustive statistical context. The preponderance of literally millions of numbers and figures in this colossal book's content is a natural for the baseball stats junkie; it's arguably stronger than its major baseball competitor, Total Baseball:Ultimate... in the sense that it's not AS exhasutive, and this shorter degree of comprehensiveness if you will may sway single volume baseball encyclopedia purchasers towards a predilection for this one over Total Baseball. As a physical/tangible reference its less onerous or ponderous than Total BBL, and it indeed covers most any and every aspect of the great game of baseball you could ever want to know from the very popular statistical perspective. Indeed it's a mighty strong and entertaining tome. It's comprehensive content rivals just about anything out there these days.