Jayson Stark
Autor(a) de The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History
About the Author
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Obras de Jayson Stark
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1951-07-19
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Locais de residência
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Educação
- Syracuse University (BS|Journalism)
- Ocupação
- baseball writer
Philadelphia Phillies beat writer
ESPN reporter - Organizações
- Baseball Writers Association of America
ESPN
Philadelphia Inquirer - Premiações
- 2-time Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association
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Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 115
- Popularidade
- #170,830
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 8
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.… (mais)