From the sports experts at ESPN comes the most informative baseball compilation ever createdand the next best thing to watching the home team win! I want a bumper sticker: You can have my Baseball Encyclopedia when you tear it from my cold, dead hands. Bill James, author of the "Historical Baseball Abstract "" " Baseball fans haven t been able to get this much for so little since baseball cards were a quarter a pack. Mat Olkin, writer and editor for "USA Today" and "Sports Weekly"A baseball lover s ultimate guide, based on a remarkable database compiled by the award-winning godfather of statistical baseball analysis, Pete Palmer, and edited by baseball historian and commentator Gary Gillette. Featuring totally revised and up-to-date statistics, this all-star encyclopedia presents the most complete and accurate portrait of the game of baseball ever compiled. Brought to fans at an unbeatable price, it s brimming with illuminating essays and information. There s comprehensive year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history; all-time leaders in 150 categories; all-inclusive coverage of career interruptions due to wartime military service; the most authoritative Negro League stats anywhere; and countless fascinating data about teams, managers, and ballparks. Plus every record ever set is noted and every active major league player s numbers updated, with a detailed record of everything that happened in pro baseball this year."