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brettl7278 's review for:
The Baseball 100
by Joe Posnanski
What a book, what a resource. The opposite of a dry history, this is 100 life stories in one volume. The book does not shy away from the warts - which player was in the KKK? whose fathers were monstrous presences in their lives? of course there’s always the joy of baseball in every chapter. It gives fantastic information about the Negro Leagues and players whose entire histories are so shrouded by myth that we only have stories that become legends.
A word about the rankings - which Posnanski discusses at the beginning and near the end - they are far from scientific. Joe DiMaggio is 56 because of his hitting streak, some guys are given their jersey number. So it’s not really important.
Also, he acknowledges and discusses steroids, spitballs, stealing signs, and other forms of outright cheating. But he doesn’t really take those into account in his rankings. Oh, he also discusses the dead ball era, the time when the mound was high and only 50 feet away from the plate, too.
Anyway, read one chapter a night to yourself or your kids or anyone else interested in baseball or devour it all at once. It’s really not to be missed.
A word about the rankings - which Posnanski discusses at the beginning and near the end - they are far from scientific. Joe DiMaggio is 56 because of his hitting streak, some guys are given their jersey number. So it’s not really important.
Also, he acknowledges and discusses steroids, spitballs, stealing signs, and other forms of outright cheating. But he doesn’t really take those into account in his rankings. Oh, he also discusses the dead ball era, the time when the mound was high and only 50 feet away from the plate, too.
Anyway, read one chapter a night to yourself or your kids or anyone else interested in baseball or devour it all at once. It’s really not to be missed.