The 2005 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia FROM THE PUBLISHER
Based on a completely new database compiled by award-winning baseball analyst Pete Palmer and edited by baseball commentator, historian, and editor Gary Gillette, The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia is the most complete and accurate baseball reference ever compiled.
More than 125,000 words of illuminating essaysComprehensive year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history (1871-2004)Sophisticated fielding analysis that uses newly released play-by-play data to far more accurately evaluate fielding range and catcher defenseStats such as run support for starting pitchers, blown saves, and stolen bases against catchers, as well as hit-by-pitch and intentional walks for both batters and pitchers"The Boys of Summer: Awards and Other Honors"-all MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and other major award selections"The Naturals"—Hall of Famers plus others receiving votes for the Hall, as well as a chronological list of HOF voting"Hometown Heroes"—yearly rosters for each team from 1871-2004, with all regular pitchers, players, and top reserves"The Long Season: The Historical Record"—year-by-year standings, team stats, 35 categories of league leaders, and essays on the pennant races"The Men in the Dugout" Manager Register—yearly records and finishes for every manager in history"The Glory of Their Times"—all-time leaders in more than 170 categories of career and single-season batting, pitching, and fielding stats"Fields of Dreams"—extensive information on every current and former big-league ballpark
NEW in this edition:
Complete games at position for every player for every season and for their career, including outfield games by LF-CF-RFDays spent on the DL, year-by-year and career, for every player in major league historyExpanded biographical information for all major league players, including colleges and Negro League serviceCollege World Series champions for NCAA Divisions I, II, and III plus NAIA baseball champions and CWS Most Outstanding Player awardsLittle League and American Legion championsSpring training sites for all teams from 1901-2004
Home runs hit by pitchers
Comprehensive Negro League records section, including:
Top 100 Negro League player list with extensive biographical information, years and teams played for, and capsule biographiesEx Post Facto MVP, Pitcher of the Year, and Rookie of the Year Awards for black baseball from 1910-1950Year-by-year standings for all eight Negro major leaguesDetails of every East-West All-Star GameGame scores for Negro League postseason seriesHome ballparks for all Negro League teams
ACCREDITATION
Pete Palmer has been one of the foremost chroniclers of the National Pastime for the past four decades. Co-author of the seminal analytical work The Hidden Game of Baseball and co-editor of the groundbreaking encyclopedia Total Baseball, the depth and breadth of Palmer's work is truly remarkable. He is a long-time contributor to Who's Who in Baseball as well as The Sporting News Official MLB Fact Book and Record Book. Among Palmer's analytical innovations is on-base plus slugging (OPS), now universally used as a quick but reliable measure of overall batting strength. He also discovered the statistical relationship between runs and wins, and developed such formulas as linear weights for translating player performance into team wins. Palmer has been a member of SABR since 1973 and served as chair of its Statistical Analysis Committee for 15 years. In 1989, he was awarded SABR's highest honor, the Bob Davids award.
Gary Gillette is the co-editor of the 2005 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and a nationally known baseball author and analyst. He is also the co-chair of the Society for American Baseball Research's Business of Baseball Committee and was a featured panelist on the future of baseball at SABR's 2003 national convention. He is currently working on two new books. The first book, entitled Going, Going ... Gone? examines in detail the dramatic decline in popularity of the National Pastime since World War II. The second book is an updated and revised edition of the renowned baseball classic, The Hidden Game of Baseball, for which Gillette is collaborating with Pete Palmer, co-author of the original work.
Gillette is the co-author of an extensive article entitled "The Changing Game" in the 7th and 8th editions of Total Baseball. He was also the author of a groundbreaking article on the history of the home run in the 6th edition of Total Baseball in 1999 and has been a contributor to Total Baseball for the last six editions. He was also contributor to the Baseball Prospectus 2003 and Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia.
Gillette was a co-founder and vice president of Total Sports, Inc., an Internet and print sports information publisher headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1997 to 1999. On-line, he served as the executive editor of Total Baseball Daily from 1996 to 1999, as the editor of The Baseball Workshop Online on AOL in 1996, and as a contributor to TotalBaseball.com, AT&T Interchange and Sports Illustrated Online.
Among the many baseball books that Gillette has written, co-authored, or edited are the Baseball Weekly Insider 1999 and 2000; The Spy: Baseball '98; The Scouting Report: 1995 and 1996; The Great American Baseball Stat Book 1992, 1993, and 1994; and 1992 Fantasy League Baseball. Other baseball books to which Gillette has contributed include the annual editions of the Baseball Weekly Almanac from 1992 through 2000, Bill James Presents The Great American Baseball Stat Book 1986 and 1987; and The 1990 Baseball Annual.
Gillette works as a legal expert witness on baseball-related litigation, as a consultant to insurance companies on player contract issues, and as an adviser to player agents on salary arbitration cases.
From 1992 to 1997, Gillette was the president and owner of The Baseball Workshop, a research and consulting company that became part of Total Sports via merger in 1997. The Baseball Workshop operated a national stringer network covering Major League Baseball while producing and maintaining a unique set of databases about the National Pastime.
Prior to founding The Baseball Workshop, Gillette was vice president of SportSource, Inc., the publisher of the Baseball Blue Book, in 1991, and served as executive director or chairman of Project Scoresheet, Inc., from 1987 to 1992. He was a member of the board of directors of Project Scoresheet from its inception in 1984.
Newspapers for which Gillette has written include USA Today and Baseball Weekly as well as the Detroit Free Press and the Lansing State Journal. He has also contributed to many annual baseball magazines, including Lindy's Baseball Scouting Report, Lindy's Fantasy Baseball, Baseball Today, Bill Mazeroski's Baseball, Ultimate Sports Baseball, and Hawes Fantasy Baseball.
Gillette has been a baseball commentator and analyst for several National Public Radio stations, including WHYY in Philadelphia, WKAR in East Lansing, Michigan, and Minnesota Public Radio.
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