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Author Jaffe, Jay, 1969- author.

Title The Cooperstown casebook : who's in the Baseball Hall of Fame, who should be in, and who should pack their plaques / Jay Jaffe ; foreword by Peter Gammons.

Publication Info. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.357 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  796.3570 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  796.357 JAF    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.357 JAF    DUE 05-04-24
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  796.357 JAFFE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 446 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-430) and index.
Contents Introduction: Why care about the Hall of Fame? -- Part I: Battles and WARs -- The ins and outs of the Hall of Fame -- Stat school -- Swimming with JAWS -- How voters put third base in a corner -- The hall of cronyism -- Blyleven, Morris, and the war on WAR -- Booms, busts, bottlenecks, and ballot reform -- This is your ballot on drugs -- Part II: Around the diamond -- Catchers -- First basemen -- Second basemen -- Shortstops -- Third basemen -- Leftfielders -- Centerfielders -- Rightfielders -- Starting pitchers -- Relief pitchers -- Slouching toward Cooperstown.
Summary The Cooperstown Casebook by Jay Jaffe provides a definitive guide to the greatest players in baseball history, and the Hall of Fame.
Subject National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Baseball players -- Biography.
Baseball -- United States -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Statistics.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History.
Baseball -- United States -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Statistics.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Gammons, Peter, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781250071217 (hardback)
1250071216 (hardback)
9781466882188 (e-book)
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