ERROR CHECK: 'The Baseball 100' by Joe Posnanski

[commishbob]

George Will's gaffe notwithstanding, it's a terrific collection of Posnanski's essays. I enjoyed it a great deal as I did when they were published on The Athletic last year.

BTW...I agree, those types of mistakes should never get past the editors.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by commishbob

George Will's gaffe notwithstanding, it's a terrific collection of Posnanski's essays. I enjoyed it a great deal as I did when they were published on The Athletic last year.

BTW...I agree, those types of mistakes should never get past the editors.

Though I haven't started reading it yet, I did check out the rankings. What do you think?

I'd have Yastrzemski and Boggs lower and Seaver and Griffey, Jr. higher.


Kind of a curiosity that at least four of the players would have the same rank as their uniform number.


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[commishbob]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

Though I haven't started reading it yet, I did check out the rankings. What do you think?

I'd have Yastrzemski and Boggs lower and Seaver and Griffey, Jr. higher.


Kind of a curiosity that at least four of the players would have the same rank as their uniform number.


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Any '100 Best..." list of anything is fun to argue about. I had plenty of quibbles with where he ranked certain players. But he's such a great writer I just kind of got lost in the bios, skipped to a few of my favorite players first, and didn't think too much about where he had them.

Having said that I would agree with you on the four you mentioned. Me, I'd have had Ty Cobb higher than 8 but who do you bump down? I was prepared to skip the Bonds entry but Posnanski wrote it so cleverly addressing both sides of the usual Bonds debate, that I thought it was one of the highlights of the book.

Posnanski's Buck O'Neil book is not to be missed either.

[egri]

Originally Posted by commishbob

Posnanski's Buck O'Neil book is not to be missed either.

He also had a column about the Army-Navy game that ran about ten years ago that is worth a read.

[Seven]

I love Posnanski's writing, and actually followed the articles as they were being published during the pandemic, just out of curiosity, are they 1-1 copies of the articles he published during his tenure at The Athletic, or is more detail added?

I respect his baseball opinion, and I enjoyed the mix of stories and stats, that we received from his articles. I didn't personally agree with a few of his rankings, but there was nothing truly egregious in my book.

[clydepepper]

Can you spot the error?

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[BobC]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

Can you spot the error?

Attachment 494772

Is it that is a reversed image since Gibson threw right handed?

[John1941]

Yikes. I didn't even notice that. I think it's a great book, second on my baseball book list only to the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. It's so well- written even my mom enjoys reading it (no kidding).