Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 280
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4422-4568-6 • Hardback • March 2015 • $46.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-5381-0759-1 • Paperback • September 2017 • $30.00 • (£22.99)
978-1-4422-4569-3 • eBook • March 2015 • $28.50 • (£21.99)
Bob Kuenster is the editor of Baseball Digest and has worked as a writer and editor for the publication since 1987. He has been a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America since 1994. Kuenster is the author of The Baseball Entertainer and The Baseball Entertainer #2.
Introduction
1. Top 10 First Basemen
2. Top 10 Second Basemen
3. Top 10 Third Basemen
4. Top 10 Shortstops
5. Top 10 Left Fielders
6. Top 10 Center Fielders
7. Top 10 Right Fielders
8. Top 10 Catchers
9. Top 10 Designated Hitters
10. Top 10 Multi-Position Players
11. Top 10 Right-Handed Starting Pitchers
12. Top 10 Left-Handed Starting Pitchers
13. Top 10 Relievers
Bibliography
Notes
About the Author
One of my favorite exercises is pick the greatest players of all time at each position. Robert Kuenster’s marvelous book has made that exercise a lot easier. . .or harder. He gave me a lot more to think about.
— Tim Kurkjian, ESPN’s Baseball Tonight
Robert Kuenster’s Baseball’s Top 10: Ranking the best Major League Players by Position is about what it is to be a baseball fan. He rates the top players by positions, re-opening the debates we all have had: Mays vs. Cobb vs. Joe D vs. Mantle in center, or Gehrig vs. Foxx vs. Pujols at first, Williams vs. Musial in left, which opens the audience to modern era questions about Barry Bonds or Manny Ramirez. A lot of fun, a lot to think on, a lot of great players we were fortunate to watch.
— Peter Gammons, three-time National Sportswriter of the Year and Hall of Fame baseball columnist