ERROR CHECK: 'The Baseball 100' by Joe Posnanski

commishbob · #1 12-23-2021, 09:16 PM

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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 · #2 12-25-2021, 06:02 PM

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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 · #3 12-26-2021, 07:58 AM

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 · #4 12-26-2021, 01:33 PM

Can you spot the error?

Lefty Bob.jpg

BobC · #5 12-26-2021, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by clydepepper

Can you spot the error?

Attachment 494772

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

clydepepper · #6 12-26-2021, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by BobC

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

Nope, not a reversed image : Cap and Uniform are correct.

Bob certainly wasn't a lefty...perhaps he was pranking the photograph, but, just like the previously mentioned error, it should have been caught.

Again- I'm available for any writers in need.

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clydepepper · #7 01-08-2022, 08:07 PM

Well, I'm done to the final three...

several chapters back, I found another error:

Page 477: 'Under McGraw's watchful eye, Mathewson won 253 games with 77 shutouts....'

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He won 345 wins with 71 shutouts under McGraw.

27 wins before McGraw and the single one with the Reds; 5 shutouts in 1901 and three in 1902 before McGraw took over.

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STILL, I have really enjoyed 'The Baseball 100'.

Agree with more than I disagree with...learned a few things as well:

I've lived in Columbus, GA almost my entire life and attended the same high school as Frank Thomas...and yet, I never heard that he was cut from the team at any time.

I will have to do some research on my own to verify that. Since Frank was already the 'victim' of an error in the forward of this book, perhaps the author is thinking of Michael Jordan being cut from his high school basketball team...I mean, they both played for the Birmingham Barons and both were 6'5" and black...so who knows.

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