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Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip
I've kept my copy of the Centennial Edition of the Baseball Encyclopedia for over 50 years now. It came out in 1969, so stats through 1968. This is a second printing edition. As you can see it is well-worn from heavy use. !
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my copy of Baseball Encyclopedia is the 4th edition - it's about as worn as yours. i must have gleaned through that thing a couple of dozen or more times. i learned about so many old time players thru that book. i'd nearly forgotten about it (buried under a pile of notes these days) until i read your post. Blew off about 6 years of dust and looked over Hornsby's career just for the heck of it. (He was pretty good, wasn't he?) It was a must have book for baseball nuts like me.
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