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Title: The Sporting News Selects Baseball's Greatest Players: A Celebration of the 20th Century's Best (Sporting News Series) by Ron Smith, Willie Mays, Sporting News Publishing Company, The Sporting News ISBN: 0-89204-608-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Distributed Products Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Comment: Baseball is my favorite sport, and I love debating the greatest players of all time just like everyone else. And The Sporting News does a solid job of ranking the players, and offering why. The pictures are a wonderful addition to the text. And while they overvalue players like Rogers Hornsby and Pete Rose and undervalue players like Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, and Stan Musial, the idea of the book like this is to provoke arguments. Foolishy, they did not separate pitchers and position players, and I wish they would have written a little bit more about each player, but overall this is a great book. One final note: For the most part I believe that baseball's greatest players came from the bygone days, but Cal Ripken's 78 ranking in this book is an absolute travesty. He is a top 30 player. Overall, a great book.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Sporting News Selects Baseball's Greatest Players
Comment: GREAT BOOK, GIVEN AS A GIFT AND HE LOVED IT. READS IT AVIDLY EVERYDAY. WIFE TOLD ME HE ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT. I AM SURE IT WILL BE LOVED BY THE AVID BASEBALLL FAN. MAKES A GREAT GIFT OR IF YOU ARE JUST BUYING IT FOR YOURSELF ENJOY EVERY PICTURE AND LINE YOU READ.
Rating: 5
Summary: Scores a Home Run With These Pics!
Comment: Like their pro football book, this book selects what The Sporting News' editors felt who were the greatest 100 baseball players of all time. And it's very difficult to argue too hard with their choices. Babe Ruth at #1 is in my opinion a no-brainer. Ruth really saved the game at a time when it desperately needed a hero and he forever changed the way the game was played with his towering home runs on the field and his "carousing" off it. The book also features a nicely written foreword by the #2 all-time best player, Willie Mays. How honored I am that I got to see him play in his prime some 30 plus years ago as a boy.
I like that the choices in this book are unaffected by race, scandal or personality. Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Buck Leonard, Cool Papa Bell, and Oscar Charleston of the Negro League made this list. It's truly sad that so many talented ballplayers were kept out of the majors because of their race. Joe Jackson, is another "Top 100 member" who of course was banned after the Black Sox scandal. Others like Ty Cobb, who was a notorious hothead in his day are also here.
Reading through the book brought many smiles to my face as I recalled watching so many players, like Harmon Killebrew, Kirby Puckett, Willie McCovey (my all-time favorite), Ernie Banks, and Hank Aaaron just to name a few.
So many excellent choices, this book is well-done and a great momento to all the athletes who have made baseball the game it is today.
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Title: The Sporting News Selects Football's 100 Greatest Players: A Celebration of the 20th Century's Best by Ron Smith, Carl Moritz, Jim Brown, John Rawlings ISBN: 0892046244 Publisher: Sporting News Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon by Neal McCabe, Constance McCabe ISBN: 0810991195 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Teammates by David Halberstam ISBN: 140130057X Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 14 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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