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The Team-By-Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball | 
 enlarge | Author: Dennis Purdy
Creator: Tony La Russa
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 71749
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.4 x 6.2
ISBN: 0761139435
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35764097303
EAN: 9780761139430
ASIN: 0761139435
Publication Date: July 15, 2006
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Product Description
The obsessive reference for every baseball nut, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is a comprehensive, original, devour-it-like-salted-peanuts single-volume encyclopedia that marries history and statistics and delivers them team by team. Organizing by teams gives the wide view—how do the Murderer’s Row Yankees compare to the Big Red Machine? The long view—what team has given the Red Sox the most trouble over the last 100 years? And the hidden view—name the team that went through all the 1990s without a Gold Glove winner. It’s how the game is played, and now, finally, it’s presented in the way the game is best understood.
Created by baseball historian Dennis Purdy, a true buff’s buff, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA offers the history of every existing major league baseball franchise told through narrative, bios, anecdotes, photographs, and the most comprehensive team statistics ever assembled in a single book. Every year’s record, standing, attendance, and primary starting lineup for each of baseball’s 30 franchises. Top-10 leader lists for every major category (and some minor ones), plus all-time won-loss records versus all opponents. All the awards—MVP, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, Gold Glove. Manager records. Post-season records. Even retired uniform numbers. But the stats are just the beginning—each chapter contains entertaining thumbnail biographies of every franchise’s key players, recalling, for example, how the game’s greatest shortstop, Honus Wagner, was ecruited when spotted throwing rocks across a river. And sprinkled throughout are spicy team facts, bizarre anecdotes, statistical anomalies, and little-known gems—like what Babe Ruth said to Lou Gehrig after hitting his “called shot” homerun in the 1932 World Series.
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 The baseball fiends love it!! October 28, 2008
It is complete, detailed, extensive and a must for any baseball nut.
I bought two of these encyclopedias for gifts, and gave them to my two favorite men at the same time. One of the guys already has a walking baseball encyclopedia inside his brain, but I have to tell you, they have more fun with that volume than a pair of kids giggling over something they're not supposed to have found!
One of My Favorite Baseball Books, You''ll Love It! May 16, 2008
What a great addition to any fan's library, The Team By Team encyclopedia of Major League Baseball is much more then a useful reference guide. It's got everything from statistics to in-depth biographical information and team history. The amount of information is staggering and it's filled with lots of photos of team memorabilia, legendary moments and important players and managers (the baseball cards are a particularly nice touch). The Team History & Significant Player's section for each team is my favorite part as you can easily trace the greatest players of a franchise's history and it isn't completely made up of the usual Hall of Famers & MVP's. I often find myself picking it up off the shelf to brush up on my baseball history or a quick stat check. At $22.95 it is a must buy!
 Beware of Mistakes March 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Beware of a number of mistakes in this book, including the following:
p120 (1954)-Ted Williams would have needed only 477 plate appearances, not 502. The rule is 3.1 plate appearances per scheduled game. 502 is the number required in a 162 game season, but the season was 154 games in 1954.
p219 (1912)-The author notes that Morrie Rath was "easily" the least productive player in terms of RBIs as he had only 19 in 591 at bats. However, Enzo Hernandez drove in 12 in 549 at bats in 1971, clearly a lesser rate of production.
p552 (1929)-How can Johnny Frederick's six pinch-hit home runs in a single season still be a record, when on page 555 (2000) the author states that Dave Hansen set a new record for pinch-hit home runs in a single season with seven?
p665-The text refers to "attorney Frank Shea." His name is correctly given as "William A. Shea" on page 670.
p727-Yogi Berra became manager of the Mets in 1972, not 1971. Gil Hodges died during spring training of 1972 (see p581).
p752-"1908" should be "1980."
p780-In 1935, Cochrane lead the Tigers to their first-ever World Series victory, not their first-ever World Series.
p826-Gavvy Cravath lead the NL in home runs six times, not the AL.
p1018-Christy Mathewson did not prompt the creation of Ladies' Day. Ladies' Days were instituted as early as 1883.
p1030-If Andrew Freeman purchased the Giants in 1895 (see p1026), how could Ward have retired in 1894 after growing weary of dealing with the principal owner of the Giants, Andrew Freeman?
p1114 (1977)-Doug Ault hit 15 more home runs after that opening day game. I have no idea where the reference to his hitting only two more home runs that season came from.
p1114 (1985)-On 5/23/85, Dennis Lamp picked up a win after pitching but 1/3 of an inning in relief. He also had wins after appearing 1 1/3 and 1 2/3 innings. Even if the latter two are considered "long relief", given the 5/23 win, Lamp did not win all his games in long relief appearances.
p1129-The author states that George Bell was made the team's DH in 1988 because of his failing knees. Bell played 149 games in the outfield that year, and only seven as DH. In 1989, he played 134 games in the outfield, and 19 as DH. In 1990, the split was 103/36 in favor of the outfield. Bell didn't become a DH until 1992. The chart on page 1119 shows Bell as the team's primary LF in 1988-1990.
 A good, but not great, 'one-stop' source for baseball stats January 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purdy's 'Encyclopedia' tries to go beyond the usual 'stats and lists' format, although there are plenty of lists for season and career leaders. The sections on individual players are nice, with some well-chosen anecdotes fleshing out the familar stuff true baseball fans already know (i.e.'Lou Gehrig went to Columbia U.')
The weak point of the book would probably be the team history sections, which are, if anything, too concise in baseball info, and too wordy in historical background on every owner of every team.
Perhaps if Purdy updates this work, he'll flesh out the tean info. As it is, he's made an impressive rookie debut as a baseball historian.
Tremendous!! March 29, 2007
Here one thick volume (1166 pages) compiles most every historical fact a baseball fan might want about each of the major league franchises from the original teams to those expansion additions. The book is nicely organized with a written review of each team followed by top team and individual statistics both traditional and newer. These statistics are shown both for team history as well as by season. Also included are the yearly starting lineups both hitting and pitching as well as the list of past managers. Each chapter ends with written comments about that teams best players. A great reference.
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