Total Baseball

The most complete, authoritative, and informative baseball encyclopedia available. No other book gives you: 1) The complete statistics for all of the more than 13,000 major league players, with a full array of new and revealing stats compiled from an unparalleled historical database. 2) The top 100 lifetime and single season leaders in batting, pitching, and fielding for 95 different stats. 3) The starting lineups, plus key pitchers and substitutions, for all teams since 1871. 4) Corrections for the thousands of errors in other books of this kind. 5) The detailed history of baseball by the game's reigning historian. 6) The little known story of black baseball before 1947. 7) Biographies of the 400 greatest players, including more than 200 Hall of Famers. 8) The complete balloting for all of baseball's major awards in the 20th Century. 9) Feature chapters on the minor leagues, team histories, Japanese baseball, Latin ball, nicknames, scandals, trades, streaks and feats, commissioners, managers, coaches, umpires, and baseball lore.