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Sure, you can find most of this data online now, but you cant beat a big reference tome sitting stately on your bookshelf. The book relies heavily on quotations from contemporary. For example, for several early editions of the baseball encyclopedia, there was a fellow named lou proctor listed in the book. Jacobs has worked as a reporterstatistician for stats, llc, and is the playbyplay voice for the woodberry forest school baseball team. Long before the internet and baseball, we had the macmillan baseball encyclopedia. I have the ninth edition, up to the late 1990s, i think.
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