Setting the standard for football annuals, this guide provides readers with every statistic they ever wanted to know about today's NFL players. Football fans, fantasy team owners, and pros alike will find STATS Pro Football Handbook indispensable both before and during the season.

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.

STATS Pro Football Handbook tackles the NFL. With career stats for every player who played a down in 1999, as well as in-depth profiles identifying players strengths and weaknesses there is no question why this book is the official statistical resource of the NFL players. We cover every snap, pass, run, fumble, interception, kick, score and tackle. If it happened on the field, it's in this book. STATS Pro Football Handbook 2000 is a must have for anyone who is a fantasy team owner, professional within the game, member of the media covering the game or just a fan of football.

Diamond Chronicles acts as the perfect compliment to the STATS baseball library. Featuring essays, debates and discussions from the 1998 baseball season and offseason, from some of the most popular and outspoken baseball minds in the business. Sometimes heated, often irreverent and always entertaining, Diamond Chronicles makes for compelling reading to novice fans and baseball junkies alike.

Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring? (1) Which player would lose the most home runs after adjustments for ballpark effect? (2) Which player claims four of the top five places for best individual seasons ever played, based on all-around offensive performance? (3) (See answers, below). These are only three of the intriguing questions Michael Schell addresses in Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers, a lively examination of the game of baseball using the most sophisticated statistical tools available. The book provides an in-depth evaluation of every major offensive event in baseball history, and identifies the players with the 100 best seasons and most productive careers. For the first time ever, ballpark effects across baseball history are presented for doubles, triples, right- and left-handed home-run hitting, and strikeouts. The book culminates with a ranking of the game's best all-around batters. Using a brisk conversational style, Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pete Palmer and Bill James, he has analyzed the most important factors impacting the sport, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool from which players are drawn, player aging, and changes in the game that have raised or lowered major-league batting averages. Schell's book finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions, and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. It also provides rankings based on players' positions. For example, Derek Jeter ranks 295th out of 1,140 on the best batters list, but jumps to 103rd in the position-adjusted list, reflecting his offensive prowess among shortstops. Replete with dozens of never-before reported stories and statistics, Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers will forever shape the way baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime. Answers: 1. Coors Field 2. Mel Ott 3. Barry Bonds, 2001–2004 seasons