The Baseball 100

The Baseball 100 is a 2021 book by Joe Posnanski, mostly reprinting a series he wrote for The Athletic on the 100 greatest players in baseball history. The biographies are very interesting, bringing the players to life, and even a very well-read baseball fan will find out new information. One can quibble about some of the choices (Cool Papa Bell ahead of Turkey Stearnes? Carlos Beltran ahead of Martin Dihigo?) and the picking some players for spots to match numbers associated with them (Joe DiMaggio at #56, Jackie Robinson at #42, Frank Robinson and Mike Schmidt tied at #20) but it is still a nicely informative book, balancing anecdote, statistics and insight.

Further reading

• Joe Posnanski: The Baseball 100, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2021. ISBN 9781982180584