The best baseball team of the 20th century? How about the 1906 Cubs? Or the 1998 Yankees? Don’t forget the 1929 A’s, or the 1976 Reds. Some say the Yanks had a pretty good squad in 1927. There were so many great teams in the last century, it would be hard to compile a list of the 25 best—much less rank those clubs—but that’s what the authors have done! This is an endlessly fascinating tome, sure to prompt spirited discussions around the water cooler or above the dugout. Let the arguments (and the fun!) begin!

Chris Holaday is a fulltime copywriter and photographer in Durham, North Carolina. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, he is the author of several other books on baseball history.
Marshall Adesman lives in Mount Carmel, Tennessee.

Chris Holaday and Marshall Adesman
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 261
Bibliographic Info: photos, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2000
pISBN: 978-0-7864-0925-9
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0867-9
Imprint: McFarland

“read and enjoy”—Public Library Quarterly; “an outstanding book with well-thought out arguments…documentations are thorough, interesting, & make for good controversy”—One More Inning; “a gem”—The Diamond Angle; “well-crafted”—Legends; “each team is described in detail—ARBA; “statistical tables are only part of Holaday’s formula for figuring out which clubs were the best teams of the past hundred years”—USA Today Sports Weekly.