Until now, no single book has brought together so many facts and stats from more than 130 years of rookies playing in major league baseball. No other book has looked so closely at just the performances of first-year players, their hitting and pitching prowess, and their places in major league rookie history. Baseball analysts David Nemec and Dave Zeman fill that gap with the exceptional Baseball Rookies Encyclopedia, the first historical overview of major league rookies and the definitive guide to baseball's freshmen classes. Nemec and Zeman outline the rookie crops of each season year by year, starting in 1872 and ending with 2003. They highlight the best and worst performances of each season, discuss the future Hall of Famers who debuted, single out one or two exceptional players for closer inspection, present statistical leaders for each major league at the time, and give a timeline of unique or noteworthy rookie accomplishments during the season. They finish up with a page for each major league team, listing their rookie leaders in dozens of statistical categories. The authors examine rookie leaders who have gone on to become Hall of Famers, such as Ted Williams and Eddie Murra
- ISBN10 1574886703
- ISBN13 9781574886702
- Publish Date 1 October 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Potomac Books Inc
- Imprint Brassey's US
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English