The Team By Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball

by Purdy, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780761139430
• ISBN10: 0761139435
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Workman Pub Co

Summary

The obsessive reference for every baseball nut, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is a comprehensive, original, devour-it-like-salted-peanuts single-volume encyclopedia that marries history and statistics and delivers them team by team. Organizing by teams gives the wide view-how do the Murderer's Row Yankees compare to the Big Red Machine? The long view-what team has given the Red Sox the most trouble over the last 100 years? And the hidden view-name the team that went through all the 1990s without a Gold Glove winner. It's how the game is played, and now, finally, it's presented in the way the game is best understood. Created by baseball historian Dennis Purdy, a true buff's buff, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA offers the history of every existing major league baseball franchise told through narrative, bios, anecdotes, photographs, and the most comprehensive team statistics ever assembled in a single book. Every year's record, standing, attendance, and primary starting lineup for each of baseball's 30 franchises. Top-10 leader lists for every major category (and some minor ones), plus all-time won-loss records versus all opponents. All the awards-MVP, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, Gold Glove. Manager records. Post-season records. Even retired uniform numbers. But the stats are just the beginning-each chapter contains entertaining thumbnail biographies of every franchise's key players, recalling, for example, howthe game's greatest shortstop, Honus Wagner, was ecruited when spotted throwing rocks across a river. And sprinkled throughout are spicy team facts, bizarre anecdotes, statistical anomalies, and little-known gems-like what Babe Ruth said to Lou Gehrig after hitting his "called shot" homerun in the 1932 World Series.

Table of Contents

Foreword	viii
Tony LaRussa
Introduction	ix
The Ground Rules	xi
Arizona Diamondbacks	1	(16)
Atlanta Braves	17	(48)
Baltimore Orioles	65	(44)
Boston Red Sox	109	(50)
Chicago Cubs	159	(52)
Chicago White Sox	211	(48)
Cincinnati Reds	259	(54)
Cleveland Indians	313	(48)
Colorado Rockies	361	(18)
Detroit Tigers	379	(52)
Florida Marlins	431	(18)
Houston Astros	449	(32)
Kansas City Royals	481	(28)
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	509	(34)
Los Angeles Dodgers	543	(52)
Milwaukee Brewers	595	(26)
Minnesota Twins	621	(42)
New York Mets	663	(34)
New York Yankees	697	(52)
Oakland Athletics	749	(44)
Philadelphia Phillies	793	(42)
Pittsburgh Pirates	835	(56)
St. Louis Cardinals	891	(58)
San Diego Padres	949	(26)
San Francisco Giants	975	(58)
Seattle Mariners	1033	(26)
Tampa Bay Devil Rays	1059	(16)
Texas Rangers	1075	(34)
Toronto Blue Jays	1109	(28)
Washington Nationals	1137	(27)
Index of Significant Players	1164