David Nemec

In The Great Book of Baseball Knowledge, David Nemec combines the most compelling features of his many baseball quiz books and his best selling Great Baseball Feats, Facts, & Firsts. The result is an absolutely unique illustrated treasury of questions, answers, and information that serves as both an invaluable reference work and a rich storehouse of entertainment. The Great Book of Baseball Knowledge engages the reader with well over a thousand probing questions and insights about baseball's legendary teams and players. Accompanying the questions are fascinating lists of single-season and career record holders. Most of the information in these lists has never appeared before in book form. Nemec's lists range from the most career games played only at the shortstop position to the fewest total bases in a season by a league batting champion. For trivia buffs The Great Book of Baseball Knowledge is a feast of thought-provoking questions and answers on all facets of the game. For fans looking for a handy compendium of record holders, single season and career leaders, and dozens of top 10 batting, pitching, and fielding lists, it is an absolute must -- a one-of-a-kind volume for all fans of baseball and its history.

The Ultimate Test for the Ultimate Fan

The Great Book of Baseball Knowledge

Match wits with the father of baseball trivia, David Nemec, a ten-time national champion as he presents more than 200 baseball stumpers that are artfully designed to test the depth of the reader’s knowledge about the game since 1871 including: • Who is the most recent major leaguer to compile 100 or more hits, 20 or more complete games, and 20 or more decisions in the same season? No, the answer is not who you think! • Who is the only pitcher to hurl a minimum of 5,000 career innings and surrender fewer hits per 9 innings than Walter Johnson? • What team had a record of 52–62 when the strike shut down the 1994 season but was on track to qualify for postseason play with the lowest winning percentage ever by a division or league first-place finisher? Every era of baseball history is represented from Cap Anson to Mike Trout, Cy Young to Clayton Kershaw, Ty Cobb to Jose Altuve, Babe Ruth to Giancarlo Stanton. Incredible Baseball Trivia is the ultimate test for knowledgeable baseball fans!

Incredible Baseball Trivia

Scott Flatow

Here is a seven-game World Series of entertainment, innings one through nine, starting off with rookies and ending with famous Fall Classic events, heroes, and villains. Readers can keep their own score and can earn hits, RBIs, and homers depending on the degree of difficulty of the question. There are over 660 at bats, and many of the most challenging questions contain clues and hints!

The Ultimate New York Yankees Baseball Challenge

Organizes baseball history and trivia by date and year.

A Day-by-day Record of the Events that Shaped the Game

This Day in Baseball

Seven games of nine innings each offer hits, extra bases, grand slams, and bonus points in return for the correct answers to hundreds of questions

The Absolutely Most Challenging Baseball Quiz Book, Ever

"The business of baseball and player transactions by David Ball"-- t.p.

The Ballplayers Who Built the Game

Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1

Completely updated and expanded through the 2019 baseball season! In a game that has been our national pastime since the 1850s, there have been countless changes, additions and adaptations to the rules of baseball. But while the sport has altered considerably in recent years, its essence is still deeply rooted in its early history. Completely revised and updated through the 2019 baseball season, David Nemec has brought back into print his renowned book The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated. Along with providing a thorough investigation into the rules of the game and how they came to be, Nemec explains the reasoning behind many of the modifications, both large and small, and in so doing furnishes numerous examples of the specific instances that led to a particular rule being created afresh, rewritten or excised from the rule book entirely. Whether we’re talking about the uproarious “Pine Tar Game,” harrowing home plate collisions, or the constant fine tuning through the years to maintain an equilibrium between hitting and pitching, fans of all ages are given a comprehensive handbook of the pivotal incidents that shaped the game as we know it today. But The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated is much more than a textbook on the rules. It is rich with illustrative anecdotes throughout the game’s long history that feature many of baseball’s most famous players, umpires and teams as well as some of its most unsung. With photographs that help bring to life some of the movers and shakers in the ways the game has evolved over time, all fans of the sport will welcome adding this book to their libraries. As The Glory of Their Times author Lawrence S. Ritter said, “This is one of the most entertaining baseball books I have read in a very long time. Any baseball fan, young or old, will find it fun...”

An Irreverent Look at the Rules of Baseball and How They Came to Be What They Are Today

The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated

The Hall of Famers and Memorable Personalities Who Shaped the Game

Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 2

Daniel Okrent

Harris Lewine

Traces the history of baseball and offers profiles of the individuals who shaped the game.

The Classic Illustrated History of the World's Greatest Game

The Ultimate Baseball Book

The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades. This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game—May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team—through the 1900 season. Baseball historian David Nemec presents complete team rosters and detailed player, manager, and umpire information, with a wealth of statistics to warm a fan’s heart. Sidebars cover a variety of topics, from oddities—the team that had the best record but finished second—to analyses of why Cleveland didn’t win any pennants in the 1890s. Additional benefits include dozens of rare illustrations and narrative accounts of each year’s pennant race. Nemec also carefully charts the rule changes from year to year as the game developed by fits and starts to formulate the modern rules. The result is an essential work of reference and at the same time a treasury of baseball history. This new edition adds much material unearthed since the first edition, fills gaps, and corrects errors, while presenting a number of new stories and fascinating details. David Nemec began the lifetime labor that helped produced this work in 1954 and admits it may never end, as there always will be some obscure player whose birth date has not yet been found. Until perfection is achieved, this work offers state-of-the-art accuracy and detail beyond that supplied by even modern baseball encyclopedias. As Casey Stengel, who was born during this era, was wont to say, “you could look it up.” Now you can.

The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball

With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official. It provides in-depth information on many figures unknown to most historians. Each detailed entry includes vital statistics, peer-driven analysis of baseball-related skills, and an overview of the individual’s role in the game. Also chronicled are players’ first and last major league games, most important achievements, movements from team to team, and much more. By bringing attention to these overlooked baseball personalities, this reference work immeasurably enriches our knowledge of 19th century major league baseball.

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