The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2005 (Sports Encyclopedia Baseball)

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Summary: All There is to Know
Review: As the back cover says, this is the All-Time Baseball Argument Settler. The book has a lot of pages (840), the pages are big (about 8 by 10.5 inches) and the type is small so you get a lot of data.

It's basically the history of every player, every team, in every season since play began. It's not filled with chit-chat, it's filled with data, page after page of data. To be sure, each season is described in a half page or so of text to give you the overall story of what happened, but then it goes to the data.

This is the 25th edition of this book. If you've bought earlier editions you know what to expect. If you're new, all I can say is that there are good reasons for a book to go through 25 editions. It is obviously putting the information that people want into their hands.