The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Official Record of Major League Baseball

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Cited in BCL3 and Sheehy . New edition of the standard reference to the major leagues (first published in 1969). This monumental work opens with a brief history of the game MVP awards Rookie of the Year awards no-hit games commissioners leading single season and lifetime pitching and batting leaders the teams and their players (order of finish year-by-year line ups team stats managers...) player and pitcher registers (an alphabetical list of batting and fielding records some 1 700 pages) the Negro Leagues register World Series and Championship playoffs all-star games.... The modest price testifies to the very large number of copies printed. Annotation copyright Book News Inc. Portland Or.