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The Sporting News Selects Baseball's Greatest Players: A Celebration of the 20th Century's Best (Sporting News Series) Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357092273
EAN: 9780892046089
ISBN: 0892046082
Label: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Manufacturer: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 220
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Sales Rank: 874626
Studio: Sporting News Publishing Co.
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Amazon.com Review:
Start sharpening your debating chops. Any list that tries to rank the best who ever played the game in numerical order is just begging for a fight, and this coffee-table-sized offering virtually dares you to take a whack at its chin. The fun part about it is that it's intriguing enough, surprising enough, and persuasive enough to hold its own.
Pretty much everyone agrees that the Bambino's No. 1--and Smith doesn't topple over any ledges disputing that--but from No. 2 on, he gets interesting. He slots Willie Mays into the place position, and rounds out the top 10 with Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Hank Aaron, Lou Gehrig, Christy Mathewson, Ted Williams, Rogers Hornsby, and Stan Musial. Joe DiMaggio hovers at No. 11, and 300-game-winner Early Wynn is the list's closer. Several Negro League stars make it despite never getting a chance to play in the show, and of those still in uniform, only Tony Gwynn, Greg Maddux, and Barry Bonds crack the top 50; Mark McGwire (91) and Ken Griffey, Jr. (93) seem like comparative clubhouse stragglers.
Each of the 100 players is extolled with a full-page photo and facing-page text that serves up a quick tour of his career and accomplishments. Individual stats are collected and relegated to the end of the volume, but lots of fascinating numbers are woven throughout. There are also a bunch of top 10 lists offered up by players (some of whom are among the "100 Greatest") and managers that cry out to be challenged, making this one baseball book that can supply your mind and your lungs with an equally vigorous workout. --Jeff Silverman
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As national sports publications go, The Sporting News tends towards the low-brow; this can be charted both with the increase in recent years of NASCAR-coverage and by the quality of the copy itself--certainly not in the same class as Sports Illustrated, which, for all its faults, boasts the cream of the crop in terms of sheer sports journalism.
Thankfully, the book is not marred too noticeably by the usual TSN writing style; namely terse, fumbling little capsules that adhere strictly to certain ... Read More
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Baseball is my favorite sport, and I love debating the greatest players of all time just like everyone else. And The Sporting News does a solid job of ranking the players, and offering why. The pictures are a wonderful addition to the text. And while they overvalue players like Rogers Hornsby and Pete Rose and undervalue players like Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, and Stan Musial, the idea of the book like this is to provoke arguments. Foolishy, they did not separate pitchers and position players, and ... Read More
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GREAT BOOK, GIVEN AS A GIFT AND HE LOVED IT. READS IT AVIDLY EVERYDAY. WIFE TOLD ME HE ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT. I AM SURE IT WILL BE LOVED BY THE AVID BASEBALLL FAN. MAKES A GREAT GIFT OR IF YOU ARE JUST BUYING IT FOR YOURSELF ENJOY EVERY PICTURE AND LINE YOU READ.
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Like their pro football book, this book selects what The Sporting News' editors felt who were the greatest 100 baseball players of all time. And it's very difficult to argue too hard with their choices. Babe Ruth at #1 is in my opinion a no-brainer. Ruth really saved the game at a time when it desperately needed a hero and he forever changed the way the game was played with his towering home runs on the field and his "carousing" off it. The book also features a nicely written foreword by the #2 all-time ... Read More
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My favorite sports is baseball, so reviewing this book was an easy choice. As with all books that rank the best of all time, the listing are subjective, although this list is very close to my personal choices. Sporting News is a respected name and that adds credibility to the book.
Starting with Babe Ruth, as most baseball ranking do, right to number 100 Early Wynn, there are stories, photos and quotes that make this book one the best. I was impressed by the vast collection of pictures throughout ... Read More
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