This historical baseball sourcebook features exclusive summaries of every major league season, including standings, league leaders, in-depth team profiles, and highlights.

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.

Celebrating its tenth edition, "STATS Major League Handbook" is the dictionary for the action happening on the field. The book contains player career statistics, 1998 team statistics, manager tendencies, 1999 projections, and more.

Now in its ninth year, Bill James's legendary "Handbook" offers everything the true baseball fan wants and needs, including complete career pitching and hitting stats for every 1997 player, managerial performances and tendencies, and more.

The most respected statistical book on the major leagues available today, this handbook offers everything true baseball fans want and need, including complete career pitching and hitting stats for every 1996 player, 1997 hitter and pitcher projections, managerial performances, and more.

STATS All-Time Major League Handbook is the Only historical baseball register that features exclusive year-by-year career statistics for Every major league hitter, pitcher and fielder since 1876. Complete position-by-position fielding stats and hitting stats for pitchers round out the most in-depth player register ever compiled.Unique Features: -- Bill James' and STATS' exclusive historical data for Every major leaguer -- Complete stats for every player thru 1997 -- Easy-to-read design