Book Information

Book ID Asin: B01N53ALMS
Book Title: The New Baseball Bible: Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime
Book Author: Dan Schlossberg,Jay Johnstone,Alan Schwarz
Book Format and Price:
Book Format Name: Kindle
Book Format Price: $1.99
Book Format Name: Paperback
Book Format Price: $15.29
Book Price: $2.33
Book Category: Kindle Store, Kindle eBooks, Sports & Outdoors and unknown
Book Rating: 191 ratings

Book Product Detail

• Best Sellers Rank: #147,363 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • #3 in Baseball Statistics
  • #7 in Teen & Young Adult Baseball & Softball
  • #10 in Baseball Essays & Writings

• Customer Reviews:
  4.6 out of 5 stars 191 ratings

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Book Review

Name: John C.
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Tedious
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2022
Review: See headline. I love baseball but trying to remain interested in this one just wore me out. Too many statistics that weren't interesting, just trying to fill pages. Boring.

Name: Jim Dryden
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another Great Baseball Read
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2021
Review: I love baseball and reading about all the facts and nuanced that happened is always very interesting to me in the game.

Name: Wilma Malloy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A good read!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2021
Review: A gift to a sports fan. He enjoyed it.

Name: WDX2BB
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good fun in a massive way
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2023
Review: How much work went into this book?

That's the initial reaction to picking up a copy of "The New Baseball Bible." It's close to 400 pages, quite jammed with baseball history.

All right, it's not all original work this time. This concept started wtih "The Baseball Catalog," which was published in 1980. It's gone through almost a dozen revisions as well as a few name changes over the years. It's apparently difficult to argue with success. Not all of the author's work has centered on this format, but he's certainly gotten the hang of it.

This is grouped into 21 different categories, and each of them is given enough room to breathe. There are sections on rules, umpires, ballparks, players, managers, trades, moments, fans ... you get the idea.

Let's take managers as an example. The chapter has such articles dedicated to player/managers, greats in the field, strategy, and coaches. Filling out the pages are little items from baseball history. In this case, there are stories and quotes about people like Leo Durocher and John McGraw, odd moments of strategy (walking a batter with the bases loaded), and so forth.

You multiply that by 21, and you've got a book - a very big book, all about baseball. Thankfully, there's a good index in the back to help those looking for specifics. I've been working on a book these days on sports history, and this gave me some nice little items.

To overgeneralize, some of the information in the major articles may be known to an older fan who has lived through some of the history of the game. But there's certainly enough here that is presented in other ways to keep a reader entertained.

I found a few cases where the editing could have been just a little sharper, with a few items duplicated. I suppose in a book like this, that's to be expected.

"The New Baseball Bible" certainly was worth a good first look. I didn't go through it all, but I'll get to it. In the meantime, it has found an audience, which is nice. Now it will go in my bookcase, whenever something comes up that needs checking. That works for me nicely.

Name: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic
Date: Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2020
Review: Lots of information for the true baseball fan. It even had some odd baseball facts that baseball fans never knew.

Name: W. Tucker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Update of the earlier Baseball Catalog
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017
Review: I have the original hardback of The Baseball Catalog, and this is a nice update of that solid book. Added art and photos enhance the new material, and this is a great browsing book. I keep it on the coffee table for handy reference when watching baseball. Even if you own the Catalog, this makes a nice revision.

Name: Karen Martin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: unusual book
Date: Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020
Review: great for grandson

Name: Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Baseball Gold Mine
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017
Review: Everything you could possibly want to know about the history and evolution of baseball, plus a lot of fascinating stuff you didn't even know that you wanted to know. This is an amazing book that every baseball fan should own, regardless of team loyalty.

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