This would make a nice little stocking stuffer. Combine with a set of the new baseball stamps out and you can shoot off quick notes with pictures from old-time stars of the Major Leagues.

What a novel idea! The book is comprised of post cards of famous baseball players from years gone by. The book is a great view of past greats and is suitable for shelf, or break out the cards to frame. You can even mail them to fellow baseball enthusiast! Buy one to keep and one to send to friends! It is is a great stocking stuffer for the baseball fanatic.

Its a very good book for begginner card collecters.

BASEBALLISTICS is a veritable cournacopia of baseball knowledge and statistics. I read THE BASEBALL TRIVIA BOOK TO END ALL BASEBALL TRIVIA BOOKS.......PROMISE and I found it to be very entertaining. I found BASEBALLISTICS to be absolutely riveting. Like Bert (who I have known for almost 30 years), I am a fan of sports realted trivia and I have used his book as the ultimate trivia resource for settling any and all baseball arguements.

i had the pleasure of speaking with earnie the other night on the phone. he truly is a class act and a true gentleman. he had fights with many of the classic names of the 70s muhammad ali, larry holmes, jimmy young, ken norton, jimmy ellis, jerry quarry, roy tiger williams and many more.

he tells me he has a very successful marketing company in the states now, and suprisingly said don king was a good guy and not to believe what ' all those guys say'. we spoke about his old peers like candy slim jeff merritt whos in bad shape these days and the fearsome roy tiger williams who is now a mr nice guy and a singer with larry holmes in philly.

its great how many of these old warriors are doing okay for themselves now. best wishes to 'my mate' earnie, i cant wait to get the book of you persoanlly, i have no doubt its another classic like the books by larry holmes, joe frazier, quick tillis and george foreman.

This book is great for all readers and is a great biography that puts you in the mind of a writer. You will feel like you are actually there witnissing these masterfull events.

You can't argue with the fights the author picked and he was very good at getting detailed information about the fight and the men. However, he slanted alot of his commentary with biased views. Had he remained totally objective, this would be a great book.

This is the work of a bitter misanthrope. Sugar's jokes are predictable and his writing style is stale. Try "When Pride Still Mattered" for a good book on football.

It is obvious from reading the lower rated reviews that the individuals found the title on a search and wrote the review without reading it. Big mistake, guys. Bert Sugar is the editor, not the author. The book does collect various essays from people from both former athletes and from sports writers. Some of the essays do come off as rather dull. Most are intersting reads. There is even a short piece to accompany the cartoon of the real Americas Team, drawn by Bill Gallo, with the real team consisting of the Duke and a handful of other Western heroes. Bill Conlin, a journalist for a Philadelphia paper spends almost as much time ragging on his "Iggles" (Eagles) as he does the Cowboys. Skip Bayless, a veteran of Dallas newspapers, is one of the better writers here. Also interesting is Thom Loverro's imagined future of 2097, wherein a father tries to explain the fall of America caused by the now extinct Dallas Cowboys. Hilarious! Beware, Cowboy haters! The true origin of the "America's Taam" will defeat a myth held by haters for decades.

Have you ever wondered where the balls have gone in american citizens? This guy has them all. To be able to write such an opinionated book takes guts. Help this man to write more books. He hates Dallas So Much but deep down they are his team!

This book is so badly-written as to make me wonder exactly who the market audience would be. The only person I could really see benefitting from Albano's and Sugar's frequent factual errors and glossing-overs would be someone who has seen wrestling on TV a few times, found it to be less awful than they expected, and want to know more about what they're watching. Anybody with more than a passing interest in this form of entertainment will be left sorely disappointed.

So many things about this book bugged me: the fact that half the time, the authors act as if wrestling is real (especially Albano, when he is recounting his days in the WWF)...the fact that they suggest that the reader only follow one federation (so we don't bite off more than we can chew, supposedly)...the fact that their description of "the moves of pro wrestling" don't explain that the moves for the most part DON'T hurt the opponent...the fact that they consistently refer to Real Life in wrestling as "real-real" (when any mark or carny knows it's "shoot") and to the bad guys as "villains" (not "heels," as they're known to wrestlers). A thousand factual errors share pages with a thousand typographical errors.

Basically, this is a book which purports to be an "insider view" of professional wrestling, but which is written by two people from the outside who feel the need to keep the illusion of "wrestling as real-life violence." There's some interesting information about the earliest days at the turn of the 20th century, but it's hard to believe it as gospel when ten pages later the authors are telling you that Kane and the Undertaker are really brothers, that the first ladder match was in ECW, that Onita's barbed-wire cage uses real live electricity, and not just fireworks.

Rather than really explain what goes on in the industry (from backstage to in the ring), they try to get the reader to choose one of the two major companies (now, of course, there's only one) and believe that it's real. This may have been the way fans were in the 70s, but by now, for some reason, we are all in on the gag. All of us, apparently, except Albano and Sugar.

If you are in fact a Complete Idiot, and you need to spend 19 bucks to have someone tell you that you can look up a favorite wrestler on search engines for more information, then go ahead and buy this book. Otherwise, steer clear or get it at a Salvation Army like I did.

I thought this book would be an interesting read about one of my favorite hobbies, but I was mistaken. There is nothing particularly enlightening in here...basically anyone who has ever watched wrestling once or twice will know the majority of information that is given in the book. I mean, I know it is called the "Idiots" guide, but I guess I didn't realize that the authors took it so literally. I thought that the biographies of wrestlers past and present would be interesting, but they too were just superficial sketches. I also found a number of factual errors in the book, which took away from its credibility. I like the idea of this book in theory, and it is nice to see a book such as this being sold in the mainstream, but I didn't like the way it actually turned out. Hopefully someone will try a similar concept but do it better.

If you're a complete wrestling addict, this book will fail to enthrall you. There are a few nuggets of entertaining information, but for the most part, this book is for people who really don't know much about the world of sports entertainment. The bios on the wrestlers are dated and are angled from the character's aspects, rather than the real life stats of the wrestlers themselves.

When reading the description, high hopes are raised on the potential reader. Mr. Sugar's selection is disproportionally biased towards boxing. Even Mr. Sugar's boxing selections are disappointing; quite a surprise considering his prestige in the field. Other popular sports such as football, soccer, and basketball are not covered in the depth that they deserve. Furthermore, his oppinions are rarely supported by facts, sometimes leading to disinformation . Sincerely, I regret buying it and I would not recommend it to any serious sports reader.

well what do you expect, it isnt biased towards boxing, boxing is the greatest sport of all time, and many great athletes have been boxers. This book is very thorough and well written.

I have known Bert Sugar personally for almost thirty years and I have always found him to be very interesting with a mind like a steel trap. Reading this book, for me, was a real treat, because, like Mr. Sugar, I fancy myself to be a fan of sports-related trivia. Unlike one previous reviewer, I found Mr. Sugar's rankings to be equally distributed among all the sports. Ranked among the top 5 were yesteryear's incarnations of Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders - multi sports stars who could do everything on and off the field. Jackie Robinson, ranked number 4, excelled at baseball, football, basketball, swimming, track, and even tennis. Number 2 rated Jim Thorpe, in addition to his success in football, baseball, and track, also won (Bert, you might or might not be aware of this!) the 1912 Intercollegiate BALLROOM DANCING championship! Coming in at number one........JIM BROWN, a FIVE sport star at Syracuse in football, baseball, basketball, track, and...get this... LACROSSE! I consider Bert's book to be a must read and a sure-fire conversation starter.

When reading the description, high hopes are raised on the potential reader. Mr. Sugar's selection is disproportionally biased towards boxing. Even Mr. Sugar's boxing selections are disappointing; quite a surprise considering his prestige in the field. Other popular sports such as football, soccer, and basketball are not covered in the depth that they deserve. Furthermore, his oppinions are rarely supported by facts, sometimes leading to disinformation . Sincerely, I regret buying it and I would not recommend it to any serious sports reader.

Bert chose the 100 greatest atheletes of all time, but the reader must understand that these are his choices, not yours. Who is ever going to agree with lists like these? THe previous critique of Berts book said that there was aheavy slant to boxers, which there is not. Ali, Robinson, Louis, Dempsey, Johnson, Armstrong and Pep are the only fighters chosen. 7 boxers in a list of 100 athletes is not a heavy slant. One could make the argument that he left out too many fighters. Bert's list, like all other lists of it's like. are very subjective. They are derived from personal opinions and are meant to strike up debates. I did not agree with several inclusions and omissions, but the book was an excellent read. Bert is a very entertaining writer and his profiles on each athlete was well worth the purchase. The selections and order, I felt were secondary. A must buy for sports fanatics