An edition of The Cooperstown casebook (2017)

The Cooperstown casebook

who's in the baseball hall of fame, who should be in, and who should pack their plaques

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An edition of The Cooperstown casebook (2017)

The Cooperstown casebook

who's in the baseball hall of fame, who should be in, and who should pack their plaques

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Jaffe provides a definitive guide to the greatest players in baseball history, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He believes that the current standards for election and an arcane selection process has created some glaring mistakes, and presents a new, more objective system.

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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
446

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Subjects
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Baseball players, Baseball, Biography, History, National baseball hall of fame and museum, Baseball, miscellanea, Baseball players, statistics, Baseball players -- Biography, Baseball -- United States -- History
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United States

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Cover of: The Cooperstown casebook
The Cooperstown casebook: who's in the baseball hall of fame, who should be in, and who should pack their plaques
2017, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why care about the Hall of Fame?
Part I: Battles and WARs
The ins and outs of the Hall of Fame
Stat school
Swimming with JAWS
How voters put third base in a corner
The hall of cronyism
Blyleven, Morris, and the war on WAR
Booms, busts, bottlenecks, and ballot reform
This is your ballot on drugs
Part II: Around the diamond
Catchers
First basemen
Second basemen
Shortstops
Third basemen
Leftfielders
Centerfielders
Rightfielders
Starting pitchers
Relief pitchers
Slouching toward Cooperstown.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-430) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.357092/273
Library of Congress
GV863.A1 J34 2017, GV863.A1J34 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 446 pages
Number of pages
446

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OL26931908M
Internet Archive
cooperstowncaseb0000jaff
ISBN 10
1250071216
ISBN 13
9781250071217, 9781466882188
LCCN
2017012016
OCLC/WorldCat
957021672

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