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The Baseball 100
by Joe Posnanski
A hundred essays ranking the greatest players, each a story more than a stat line. Eight hundred pages of pleasure.
Read it if…
you want baseball history as essay collection.
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Skip it if…
you want a slim book.
Try instead: Why We Love Baseball →
Three things you will actually use
- Stories make rankings.
- Every great had a flaw.
- Enjoy the argument.
Do this first
Read the entries on your favorite players, then the top ten.
Our verdict
Posnanski's hundred.
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