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.

Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow to be general manager in 1920, the Yankees had never won a pennant. They won their first in 1921 and during Barrow?s tenure went on to win thirteen more as well as ten World Series. This biography of the incomparable Barrow is also the story of how he built the most successful sports franchise in American history. øBarrow spent fifty years in baseball. He was in the middle of virtually every major conflict and held practically every job except player. Daniel R. Levitt describes Barrow?s pre-Yankees years, when he managed Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox to their last World Series Championship before the ?curse.? He then details how Barrow assembled a winning Yankees team both by purchasing players outright and by developing talent through a farm system. øThe story of the making of the great Yankees dynasty reveals Barrow?s genius for organizing, for recognizing baseball talent, and for exploiting the existing economic environment. Because Barrow was a player in so many of baseball?s key events, his biography gives a clear and eye-opening picture of how America?s sport was played in the twentieth century, on the field and off. A complex portrait of a larger-than-life character in the annals of baseball, this book is also an inside history of how the sport?s competitive environment evolved and how the Yankees came to dominate it.

One of the only question and answer baseball annuals on the market today, STATS Baseball Scorecard takes a creative and insightful look into what makes baseball tick, with lively analysis of all the hot topics facing Major League Baseball today.

"STATS Diamond Chronicles" presents essays, debates, and discussion from the 1997 baseball season, as authored by some of the most popular baseball minds in the business. Focusing on hot topics from this past season, the guide also presents information and insight from the 1997-98 off-season, getting baseball fans totally prepared for Major League Baseball 1998.

Essays on diamond success from the nineteenth century to the present

STATS Baseball Scoreboard probes deep into the national pastime to make sense of who's winning and who's not. Now in its 10th annual edition, the Baseball Scoreboard offers more insightful, colorful and creative articles than ever before. The book's unique essays are your ticket to understanding and enjoying the many facets of today's game. You'll find the answers to baseball's hottest questions. Who gets the easy saves? Who hits the longest HRs? Which records are in danger of being broken? The book's easy-to-understand charts and graphs accompany the data and analysis. The results will make readers baseball-smart!

It doesn't get more all-American than baseball, and this all-encompassing celebration of the sport covers every major player and event in the history of the Major League. The book features a tribute to 100 of the game's legends, from Babe Ruth and Joe Di Maggio to Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, and everyone in between. The development of professional baseball is discussed, including special attention to controversies, scandals and revealing statistics provided by STATS, Inc., the largest supplier of baseball facts and figures in the world. There is no better gift to present to a baseball lover than this remarkable compilation, and it is a must-have for all those who play, watch and enjoy the sport.Luke Friend is a writer who has contributed to a wide range of magazines, from Golf World to Total Film.