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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35764
EAN num: 9781572439597
ISBN number: 1572439599
Label: Triumph Books (IL)
Manufacturer: Triumph Books (IL)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 206
Printing Date: May 30, 2007
Publishing house: Triumph Books (IL)
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Every baseball fan knows New York Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter is a great all-around player. But how about Alex Rodriguez, Jeter's teammate, former American League MVP, and probable future Hall of Famer? Many would argue he's even better than Jeter. And what about Jeter's seemingly unassailable status as one of the greatest Yankees of all time? Such discussions highlight one of the great joys of being a baseball fan: arguing over who's really great and who falls just short, who doesn't get the respect he deserves and who gets too much. In other words, who's overrated and who's underrated.
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The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History by Jayson Stark Excellent book, Thoroughly enjoyed reading it, I'm a big Jayson Stark fan!!
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I have lived in Philadelphia since I was 16 (1980), so I am a long time fan of Jayson Stark. His long time column in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer was the best thing in that rag. Like that column of Stark's, this book was a lot of fun, but had some noticible flaws, namely anti Yankee and anti Pirate bias. David Halberstam said in his great book October 1964 that Bobby Richardson was the most underrated Yankee of that time, Stark rates Richardson as the second most overrated Second Baseman of all time. I don't think Richardson was overrated, he was one of the greatest clutch players and World Series players ever. I also don't agree that players like Graig Nettles, Manny Sanguillen and Omar Moreno are overrated. Despite this bias, this is still a very enjoyable book and I would recommend it to baseball fans.
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The book is part of an ongoing series from ESPN personalities which seemingly has a purpose of further solidifying their on-air characters with sports fans.
Jayson Stark is the no nonsense baseball commentator who comes armed with a fast ball of facts to dazzle viewers in a bevy of segments on TV and radio. His lists of overrated and underrated players simply finds him playing that role.
Basically a means to drum up chat amongst those who have a historical interest in the game - the pre-publication publicity masterfully swirled and twirled a number of Stark's more controversial opinions - it is nothing more than water-cooler fodder on a slow summertime day in the office.
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Nolan Ryan, Sandy Koufax and Dizzy Dean overrated? thats just a sample of this guys opinions, in my opinion the Author is vastly overrated. his judgment of Ryan for example is the lack of Wins, Wins are a team stat, if Ryan would have pitched for teams that could score runs he would have won over 400 games and that is a fact.
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The author is an idiot. Players are not overrated when they are excellent players whose careers are cut short by injury. Koufax and Dean overrated? They did things in their injury shortened careers that others never accomplished playing twice as long. Everyone would be better off reading books by smarter, sensible writers. Stark is just another overrated journalist out of the ESPN Stable. Those interested in really finding out about baseball history should ignore books by those unqualified to write one.
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