Who's Who In Baseball

[ostrander111]

This is a book that I buy every year.. It's basically a handy reference book about every player that plays in the majors...its kinda like the back of a baseball card for every player in the game, a whole book of that. I love this book! Anyone else ever buy one?

 

[imac220]

Me In 06. It is indeed sweet! Has picture and information for just about everyone.

 

[ostrander111]

Me In 06. It is indeed sweet! Has picture and information for just about everyone.

Yep. Its great

 

[predatorkj]

Every year.It was one of the first things I picked up when I got back into collecting.I watched baseball enough but I never really kept up with all the players and while I knew some of them were good a book like this really helps you decide who is good and who can become good over the next few years.Oddly enough there are quite a few players I started collecting before they became heavily collected.I basically go after any good player I see.I have a big collection.The only way I can afford this is by busting boxes or buying singles in small amounts.But a big money saver is deciding to collect and buy things of certain players before they become really popular and then all of a sudden your paying big bucks for things that were cheap a few months back.I am not talking rookies here either.There are genuinley some players who just seem to slip under the radar.For example Adrian Gonzalez is one of them.I started looking at his stats and I figure he may start seeing a little more hobby love so I started collecting his stuff.Same thing with Matt Holliday.

 

[carlitoson]

I was helping my mom move a few months ago and she gave me a box of stuff that I left behind "way back when". Included was this paperback (sounds very similar to the book you're talking about):

It was neat reading through it...every player and team profiled, complete stats for the 1979 season, predictions for 1980, stories on Dimaggio, etc., a story on whether or not Pete Rose could break the hits record, etc, etc. In the back it has complete year-by-year lists of MVPs, batting champs, and so on. It also has the top one or two prospects for each team, including guys like Dave Righetti and Rickey Henderson.

All in all, a very entertaining and comprehensive book for $2.50! :lol:

 

[kentuckyderby]

My dad has them dating back to late 70s early 80s

He was going bananas when he couldn't find one very easily in the late 90s. He was gung-ho and needed one with Coomer in it

 

[ostrander111]

Anyone else?

 

[subpop77]

I have bought a couple here and there, good stuff

 

[boomo]

i did until baseball-reference.com came along.
dad actually had the 1927 issue, sold it for like 30.00
along with the uncut sheet of 68 topps i had as a kid.
75 for that, still crying over that one