A Chronology Of Major League Baseball Records

Filled with analyses, quizzes, comparative lists, and photos of the record-setters, this definitive book of major-league baseball records is sure to delight any lover of America's national pastime. 26 halftones.

Collects such baseball records as most grand slams in a season, highest attendance in a single season, most strikeouts in a rookie season, and most World Series hits.

Contains a year-by-year history of major league baseball.

Provides the statistical records of over 14,000 men who have hit, pitched, fielded, and managed in major league baseball, and features a chronological listing of teams and their players since 1876, a home/road performance register, recaps of championship games, player nicknames, and other information.

Baseball's greatest asset is the richness of its lore, and Leonard Koppett has made the entire treasure of the game's history accessible in one enjoyable volume. In his lively narratives on the shape and significance of each season from baseball's nineteenth-century beginnings to the updated and expanded sections on the last decade, Koppett explains the changes in baseball-the-game and baseball-the-business that forged the major leagues we know today. Each chapter recounts trends, players, and events during different eras; offers succinct seasonal recaps, and summarizes how the consequences of that particular baseball era set the stage for the next. On the origins and evolution of on-the-field play—from the 1880s origin of pitching high and tight then low and away, to modern-day use of body armor at bat—plus statistics and record-breaking achievements, Koppett's got it covered. On business and organizational controversies, such as the introduction of night baseball, radio and TV broadcasting, free agency, strike actions, divisional play-offs, and the policies of owners and commissioners, Koppett's got it covered. One-stop reading for the most essential stories, statistics, and opinions on the major leagues, Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball is the most original baseball reference available.

From baseball's humble beginnings to its modern-day pyrotechnics, this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind, and endlessly entertaining volume contains stats and records, amazing anecdotes, and recreations of great games and heroic events--from pre-season to post-season and all the glory days in between.

The entire history of baseball is told here through the records -- all the great names of the past and present.