Franchise Players - Baseball's Best

Who would make the all-time roster for your favorite major league ballclub? Who were history’s best Dodgers? Or Cubs? Or Royals? Should the Yankees start DiMaggio, Mantle, Earle Combs or maybe Bernie Williams in center field? Who’s your ace on the Braves – Spahn or Maddux? How about a Pirates’ double play combination of Bill Mazeroksi and Honus Wagner?
Franchise Players – Baseball’s Best! profiles 750 first-string players and over 1,500 honorable mentions from the 30 major league franchises. You’ll see they’re not just numbers, but real people with unique stories. Did you know that slugger Babe Herman was one of three Dodgers on third base… at the same time! Or that Hall-of-Famer Rube Waddell of the Philadelphia Athletics could be spooked by rubber snakes? Or that a star of the 1920’s St. Louis Browns played under the nickname “Baby Doll”? Take a fun walk through baseball history with the players who tell the story of their franchises.

• Starting IX: A Franchise-by-Franchise Breakdown of Baseball's Best Players
• Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017
• Maz to Yaz to Amazin': Baseball's Spectacular 1960s
• The 1967 American League Pennant Race: Four Teams, Six Weeks, One Winner
• The Final Game at Ebbets Field
• Baseball's Best 1,000: Rankings of the Greatest Players of All Time
• The Bill James Handbook 2019
• My Baseball Diary (Abridged, New Intro)
• The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age
• Koufax Throws a Curve: The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966