The Cooperstown casebook
Subtitle: who's in the baseball hall of fame, who should be in, and who should pack their plaques
By: Jay Jaffe ; foreword by Peter Gammons
Contributors: Gammons, Peter, writer of foreword
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9781250071217; 9781466882188
Subjects: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Baseball players; Baseball; Biography; History
Description: Jaffe provides a definitive guide to the greatest players in baseball history, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He believes that the current standards for election and an arcane selection process has created some glaring mistakes, and presents a new, more objective system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-430) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why care about the Hall of Fame?; title: Part I: Battles and WARs; title: The ins and outs of the Hall of Fame; title: Stat school; title: Swimming with JAWS; title: How voters put third base in a corner; title: The hall of cronyism; title: Blyleven, Morris, and the war on WAR; title: Booms, busts, bottlenecks, and ballot reform; title: This is your ballot on drugs; title: Part II: Around the diamond; title: Catchers; title: First basemen; title: Second basemen; title: Shortstops; title: Third basemen; title: Leftfielders; title: Centerfielders; title: Rightfielders; title: Starting pitchers; title: Relief pitchers; title: Slouching toward Cooperstown.