Clearing the Bases
Subtitle: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Contributors: Bob Costas (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: May 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312265564
Subjects: Baseball; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Statistics; Baseball - Statistics; 20th century; Baseball players; History; Rating of; United States
First sentence: As every baseball fan knows, it's an article of faith that Babe Ruth "saved" baseball after the disgrace of the 1919 "Black Sox scandal" and the 1920 death of Ray Chapman from a fastball to the head by Carl Mays.