Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (2nd edition)

This second edition of Jonathan Fraser Light's Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (CEB) updates and enlarges an impressive number of “items of interest” regarding all things baseball. Whereas there are many reputable books of baseball statistics, or even the Baseball Almanac site (www.baseball‐almanac.com/) which provides and astonishing number of lists of baseball facts, Light's CEB gives us facts along with some fun.

For example, the CEB features short biographical sketches of all the people who have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as histories of baseball teams who have belonged to groups ranging...