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Overview
Looking at every position on every major-league team, an ESPN.com baseball columnist presents a series of lineups for each franchise and explores the careers of players both famous and obscure. 25 photos.
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- ISBN-13: 9780743284905
- ISBN-10: 0743284909
- Publisher: Touchstone Books
- Publish Date: April 2008
- Dimensions: 9.09 x 7.28 x 0.72 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.29 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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Everyone knows that baseball's historical charm derives from its legend and lore: those many on- and off-the-field stories that bemuse and often enthrall committed fans. Yet in Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else, the author sets out to either confirm or debunk some of those tall tales. Neyer collects dozens of accounts of incidents—some very famous, some less so—as reported in books or newspapers or magazines, then digs into the readily available modern-day statistical sources, especially on the Internet (e.g., Retrosheet), to cross-check the facts. Unsurprisingly, Neyer's detective work sets the record straight most of the time, his correctives flying in the face of all that well-worn anecdotal whimsy. Hence, we get the truer stories, but not necessarily the better ones. Statistical guru Bill James provides the thoughtful foreword, and he actually seems to express some mixed emotions about Neyer's project. It's great reading, though, and it's fun to revisit the mythical baseball events of the past and then get the factual dope.