100 Greatest Baseball Players

by Donald Honig and Lawrence S. Ritter

Book Overview

This book is filled with great information on the sport and history of baseball with its records set and biographies. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs. It contains much known and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517543001
• ISBN13: 9780517543009
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Selections...

Ritter and Honig do a pretty good job of selecting the best players of all time in this book. In no particular order, they introduce each player with a few paragraphs of statistics and evaluations. They include some very rare photographs, too. Their list inclines more towards the past than the present. Players such as Tony Oliva, Pete Reiser, Smokey Joe Wood, and Herb Score are in the book because they were great players, even though injuries ended their careers prematurely, and I agree with them. However, Ritter and Honig also tend to like high batting averages and singles hitters of the past than the home run hitters of later years. Harmon Killebrew, Eddie Matthews, and Willie McCovey should probably be chosen over such players as Fred Lynn, Dave Parker, and Steve Garvey. Other than that, I really like this book. Their top 100 list is probably my favorite, over Maury Allen's and Pete Palmer's.