The New Baseball Bible: Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime

by Dan Schlossberg

Discover how the players’ approach, use of equipment, and even salaries and schedules have changed over time. Learn the origin of team and player nicknames, fun facts about the All-Star Game and World Series, and so much more.

For Yankee and Red Sox fans, for Dodger and Giant fans, for Cubs and Cardinal fans, for every baseball fan, The New Baseball Bible serves as the perfect gift for fans of America’s pastime.

For fans of baseball trivia, this updated version of The New Baseball Bible , first published as The Baseball Catalog in 1980 and now fully up to date, is sure to provide something for everyone, regardless of team allegiance. The book covers the following beginnings of baseball, rules and records, umpires, how to play the game (i.e., strategy), equipment, ballparks, famous faces (i.e., Hank Aaron vs. Babe Ruth), managers, executives, trades, the media, big moments in history, the language of baseball, superstitions and traditions, spring training, today’s game, and much more.

Veteran sportswriter Dan Schlossberg weaves in facts, figures, and famous quotes, discusses strategy, and provides stats and images—many of them never previously published elsewhere.

Genres: Baseball, Sports, Nonfiction

424 pages, Paperback

Published March 7, 2017

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Baseball fans, this book is a wonderful treasure! It is the most thorough and detailed account of baseball history, and it concludes with the 2019 season. Some of the topics include just what a person would expect: rules, ballpark histories, and famous players. There are just as many obscure details, too: information about mascots, concessions and my favorite, The Most Memorable Moments. An honest baseball fan could take months absorbing the delightful details along with the black and white photos and illustrations. This would make an excellent gift.

[Sineala · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a big book of baseball trivia and history. It's not the best-written baseball book I have ever read, but as a new fan I think it's nice to know some of the things everyone else knows about baseball and that's what this. A lot of information was repeated between the sidebars and the main text, and there were a lot of things that it didn't really go into detail about, but if you can get it on sale it's a pretty good primer.

[Art the Turtle of Amazing Girth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great store of nuggets and stories, and stats

Loved it , except for the fact that some of the stories were simply nuggets, and they leave you hanging or needing to find another medium to find out the ending.

[Jim Blessing · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a lot of interesting material, but was an exhausting read, totaling 395 oversized pages. It was too much of a good (Baseball) thing.

[Darius Zinolabedini · Rating 3 out of 5]

The sections focusing on a specific eras were great (Expansion era, modern era, etc.), while the others felt like facts where thrown at you without much context. Overall a worthwhile read.