Clearing the Bases
Subtitle: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Contributors: Bob Costas (Foreword)
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: May 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312302535
Subjects: Baseball; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - Essays & Writings; Baseball - Statistics; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Statistics; Sports & Recreation-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.