Clearing the Bases The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century

Name: Clearing the Bases The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
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ISBN: 9780312302535

ISBN-10: 0312302533

ISBN-13: 9780312302535

Edition: Revised

Authors: Allen Barra, Bob Costas

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Who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? At their peak, who was more valuable, Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams? If Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, and Roger Clemens had pitched at the same time against the same hitters, who would have won the most games? If Jackie Robinson had been white, would he be deserving of the Hall of Fame? Who was the greatest all around player of the last century? Clearing the Bases is the first book to tackle these and many other of baseball’s most intriguing questions and offer hard, sensible answers---answers based on exhaustive research and analysis. Sports journalist Allen Barra, whose weekly sports column “By the Numbers” has earned millions of readers in the…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 5/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Allen Barra is a sports columnist for theWall Street Journal, theVillage Voice, and theNew York Sunand is the author of several books, includingClearing the Bases(available in a Bison Books edition),The Last Coach: A Life of Paul “Bear” Bryant, and the forthcomingYogi Berra: Eternal Yankee.

Bob Costas has won the Emmy Award as Outstanding Sports Broadcaster eight times & has been named National Sportscaster of the Year by his peers seven times. He has also received Emmy Awards for his writing, interviewing, & reporting. In addition to his sports broadcasting, Costas hosted the Emmy Award-winning interview show "Later ...with Bob Costas" on NBC, & will be hosting a new sports journalism program on HBO beginning in February 2001. A native New Yorker, Costas now lives in Saint Louis, Missouri.