The Baseball 100 SPITBALL'S 2021 Winner of The Casey Award for The Best Baseball Book of the Year
Language: English
Published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster First Trade Paper Edition stated, 2023
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Was SPITBALL'S 2021 Winner of the Casey Award for the Best Baseball Book of the Year. Posnanski was the Casey Award Winner in 2007 for The Soul of Baseball, his wonderful book on Buck O'Neil. Here he has his own ranking of the 100 Best Baseball players of all time, and it only took him 869 pages to do so. You may agree and disagree but you will enjoy the book, Posnanski is a gifter author plus has wonderful research. First Trade Paper Edition with all numbers from 1 to 10 present. The book is in very good condition. I have around 100 books on the Best of Baseball and 30 Casey Award Winners in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
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- Title
- The Baseball 100 SPITBALL'S 2021 Winner of The Casey Award for The Best Baseball Book of the Year
- Author
- Posnanski, Joe
- Publisher
- Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster First Trade Paper Edition stated
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1982180595
- ISBN 13
- 9781982180591
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Best of Baseball, CASEY AWARD WINNER
"An instant sports classic." --New York Post * "Stellar." --The Wall Street Journal * "A true masterwork...880 pages of sheer baseball bliss." --BookPage (starred review) * "This is a remarkable achievement." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will.
Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious, The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book's introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, "Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?"
Baseball's legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game's all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn't rely just on records and statistics--he lovingly retraces players' origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball's past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the 21st-century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth's? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history?
No compendium of baseball's legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O'Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more.
The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, it is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it.
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Mike's Baseball Books
Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
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