Politics of Glory How the Hall of Fame Really Works

Name: Politics of Glory How the Hall of Fame Really Works
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ISBN: 9780025107748

ISBN-10: 0025107747

ISBN-13: 9780025107748

Edition: 1994

Authors: Bill James

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"Baseball's Hall of Fame, in bucolic Cooperstown, New York (site of the mythical creation of the game by Abner Doubleday), began enshrining baseball's best players in 1936, and has been mired in controversy ever since. In The Politics of Glory, bestselling author Bill James takes a hard look at the Hall - not only at the traditional questions of who is in and who is out and why, but at how the Hall of Fame operates, who operates it, how they make decisions, and why those decisions sometimes go awry. Using the endless battle over onetime Yankee shortstop - and new Hall of Famer - Phil Rizzuto as a recurring theme, James analyzes the perennial debate over Hall of Fame qualifications: players…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 5/2/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English