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The Real 100 Best Baseball Players of All Time...and Why!
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by Kenneth A. Shouler
Sales Rank: 758028
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List Price: $22.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 320 pages
Published by: Addax Publishing Group April 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1886110468
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1886110465
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
Who is the best baseball player of all-time? Why everyone knows it was Babe Ruth, he built Yankee Stadium and only rescued the game after the infamous 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Or was it Ted Williams? He was the last batter to hit .400 in a season and wrote books on the art of hitting. What about Willie Mays or Ty Cobb. Or even Pete Rose the all-time hits leader?
Think the argument is moot? Well author Ken Shouler doesn't. In his book The Real 100 Best Baseball Players of All-Timeand Why! all of the above players are considered, but only one can be considered as the best. Statistics are the groundwork. The criteria is accomplishments not lifestyle and this isn't some tepid alphabetical list either.
Williams or DiMaggio, Ruth or Aaron, Mays or Mantle, the arguement of who was better has gone on for generations. Shouler makes his case that one player is better than another and why. Each of the top 100 players are ranked and evaluated by looking not only at their numbers but at their impact on the game as well.
The Real 100 Best Baseball Players of All-Timeand Why! is a combination of facts, quotes and anecdotes, with complete statistics on all the top 100 players as well as black and white photographs throughout.
You may be surprised at who is at the top, who is on the list and who got left off, but if you do disagree we'll welcome your argument, but be prepared, the burden of proof falls on your shoulders.
About The Author
Ken Shouler, author of City University of New York philosophy professor, writes regularly for Cigar Aficionado, Inside Sports and Biography Magazine. He lives in White Plains, New York with his wife Rose Marie.
Reader Reviews
Ken Shouler's list of 100 top baseball players comes with statistics and arguments to back up each of his claims. Shouler is particularly partial to onbase percentage and slugging percentage, as are most Sabermetricians. The list Shouler produces is convincing, and well articulated. The problem with Shouler's list is that he does not adjust enough for changes in the game across eras. The 1930's saw the highest offensive outputs of any decade until the 1990's. The big numbers put up by hitters in the thirties leads Shouler to vastly overrate Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx. Players in pitching rich eras are likewise penalized, most notably Mickey Mantle. Shouler notes that Mantle hit over 100 RBIS only four times. But if we normalize those stats to a league where 750 runs a years is the average, Mantle ends up with ten seasons over 100 RBIS. But no system has been able to fairly evaluate these changes over time until the recent publication of the Win Shares system in the New Bill James Historical Abstract. While I found the Win Shares system more useful, I still found Shoulers' book an excellent reference and a good guide to judge against other lists of top players. Highly recomended!
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