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"Baseball's Hall of Fame, in bucolic Cooperstown, New York (site of the mythical creation of the game by Abner Doubleday), began enshrining baseball's best players in 1936, and has been mired in controversy ever since. In The Politics of Glory, bestselling author Bill James takes a hard look at the Hall - not only at the traditional questions of who is in and who is out and why, but at how the Hall of Fame operates, who operates it, how they make decisions, and why those decisions sometimes go awry. Using the endless battle over onetime Yankee shortstop - and new Hall of Famer - Phil Rizzuto as a recurring theme, James analyzes the perennial debate over Hall of Fame qualifications: players who should be in, and aren't, as well as players who shouldn't be, and are."--BOOK JACKET. "Who is more deserving of induction, Catfish Hunter or Luis Tiant?"--BOOK JACKET. "Whatever happened to Vern Stephens, the St. Louis Browns shortstop who began in the majors the same year as Stan Musial . . . and during his first eight years had more home runs and RBIs than Musial?"--BOOK JACKET. "Can you name the shortstop who is the very best player in baseball history who is not in the Hall of Fame? (Hin

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Author

Bill James, Bill James

Publisher

New York: Macmillan ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780025107748

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (76 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14