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Baseball almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia with over 500,000 pages of baseball facts, research, awards, records, feats, lists, notable quotations, baseball movie ratings, and statistics. She was a shortstop and an impressive hitter, too, and in 1922, at the age of 10, she left her philadelphia home to travel with a professional womens baseball team called the bobbies for the. Baseball theme mystery books the cozy mystery list blog. Each year, the primary focus in any professional sport is the race for a championship. Baseball history in 1955 national league by baseball almanac a walk through the 1955 national league season with stats, top 25, final standings, rosters and other baseball history. History of the casey award the casey award was inaugurated in 1983 by mike shannon and w. Hy turkin author see all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Mix an arrogant slugger, a tempestuous manager, and an impatient owner, and youve got the yankees 1977 baseball season. Tom wolfe wrote that you could never go home again. The volume consists of statistical baseball analysis, yearbyyear and teambyteam batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history, the espn baseball encyclopedia, fifth edition espn pro baseball encyclopedia. The statistics, history, and analysis that make total baseball a fixture in fans libraries can now be found in 30 books that can fit into a back pocket.
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