The 1999 Big Bad Baseball Annual: The Book Baseball Deserves

by Ken Adams, Don Malcolm, Brock J. Hanke

A feast of stats, stories, facts, and feats that immerses readers in baseball with insight and mirth. Essays cover all 30 major league teams. Charts and graphs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809226553
• ISBN13: 9780809226559
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Masters Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 2.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

For Baseball Statheads Only

While I agree with many of the critical comments, I like the book a lot. Considering the number of pages and the tiny font sizes, the book is enormous, so even if you don't like some of the material, there's plenty here to enjoy.It's definitely pitched to a pretty narrow audience though. You've got to have patience to wade through pages of explanations of their unique statistics. If all you want to do is read comments on players because you're in a Rotisserie league, this isn't the book for you.

Intricate and unusual examination of baseball

Just shows how different people are, I guess. The reader from Indianapolis seems to overlook the depth of this book's look at a range of issues and subjects pertaining to baseball and its history, and that's a shame. I don't know if the previous reviews were "fake," but I agree more with them than someone who downplays the wealth of unique material (Tom Ruane's "Empire Building" excerpt, the statistical look at Jackie Robinson's career, a critical look at Stephen Jay Gould's evolutionary model of baseball, and much more) provided in BBBA. Regardless of what time in the baseball season it is, you'll find something unusual and interesting in this book, and that's a rarity in this field.

Always the best

Every year, this is the most insightful sabremetric annual. Not only a lot of number crunching, but a fine read, as well.

Baseball Analysis: Past, Present and Future

What I've always liked about the BBBA, is that while it very ably handles baseball's future, with interesting player comments and prospect reports, it doesn't give short shrift to baseball's present and past. For example, it has run an article on George Brett's 1980 and an in depth comparison of Greg Maddux's and Sandy Koufax's respective dominance. Too often, baseball books focus solely on what to expect from players and teams in the future. While BBBA is an excellent source for that info, it also will help you to see and remember things from the 1998 season and seasons prior that you might have missed. I heartily recommend it.

Great book! Full of interesting features and more!

This annual examination of baseball just keeps getting better and better. While other books give you more numbers, BBBA gives you so much more to think about that it leaves the competition in the dust. New and innovative methods, features spanning both today and yesterday--this book has it all. Unlike other annuals, you'll refer back to this one five years from now. Truly lives up to its subtitle--"The Book Baseball Deserves."