Reference & Resources > Baseball

Whether you're looking to settle a bet with a friend, or just curious about America's "national pastime" in the months leading up to the World Series, the reference collection contains a few books of note that will give you the scoop on baseball statistics, leagues and much more.

Books of interest:

The Sporting News' The Complete Baseball Record and Fact Book (2006).

The Sporting News combined its Complete Baseball Record Book and the Major League Fact Book into a new volume for 2006. The Complete Baseball Record and Fact Book includes everything found in the Record book, an annual publication since 1909, plus complementary material previously found in the Fact book.

ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia (2006).
A clearly-organized collection of the game's statistics, both past and present.

ESPN Sports Almanac (2005).
The definitive sports reference book.

The Ballplayers: Baseball's Ultimate Biographical Reference (1999), by Mike Shatzkin.
For either casual reading or baseball research, summarizes lives and careers of past and present leaguers.

The Book of Rules: A Visual Guide to the Laws of Every Commonly Played Sport and Game (1999).
The language of the official sports rule books is, by definition, not easy to read. In The Book of Rules, it's all made simple. Every important rule of the most commonly played sports and games is explained in simple terms and further clarified by diagrams and color photographs.

The Complete Four Sport Stadium Guide (1996), by the sports staff of USA Today.
Everything you've ever wanted to know about all of the major league baseball stadiums.

If you have questions, after consulting these resources, please contact the Information Desk at (585) 359-7092.

Updated September, 2006