The Baseball Encyclopedia

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The Baseball Encyclopedia

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In 1969 The Baseball Encyclopedia, the first comprehensive compendium of major-league baseball statistics that reached all the way back to 1871, was published. An immediate sensation, The Baseball Encyclopedia—or “Big Mac,” as aficionados called it in honour of its publisher, Macmillan—was not really sabermetrics, but countless inspired…
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In 1969 The Baseball Encyclopedia, the first comprehensive compendium of major-league baseball statistics that reached all the way back to 1871, was published. An immediate sensation, The Baseball Encyclopedia—or “Big Mac,” as aficionados called it in honour of its publisher, Macmillan—was not really sabermetrics, but countless inspired…
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