Jayson Stark
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The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History (2007) 63 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1951-07-19
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bopæl
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Uddannelse
- Syracuse University (BS|Journalism)
- Erhverv
- baseball writer
Philadelphia Phillies beat writer
ESPN reporter - Organisationer
- Baseball Writers Association of America
ESPN
Philadelphia Inquirer - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 2-time Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association
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OK, maybe he wore out the "long-suffering Philadelpha" theme, but anyone who has gone through life as a fan of the Phillies -- the first team in MLB history to reach the 10,000 loss mark -- can resonate with that.
This book started out as a collection of Stark's ESPN.com columns about the 2008 Phillies team. But they have been re-written significantly, and bunches of delightfully offbeat statistics have been added.
Stark gives us glimpses of the team at pivotal points in the regular season. Then he does a day-by-day account of the divisional series, League Championship series, and World Series. At the end of each game's account, he includes a complete box score and a page of "Useless Information" -- the kind of oddball statistics guaranteed to delight any stat rat.
I really enjoyed this book. I'd recommend it to any Phillies fan, and I think most baseball fans could appreciate it.… (mere)