Carroll Conklin

Baseball's Best Decade: a Decade-by-decade Comparison: 1920s-2000s Carroll Conklin

Could there be such a thing as a real golden age of baseball? Baseball?s Best Decade takes you on a whirlwind tour of baseball from the 1920s through the 2000s. You?ll see at a glance how hitters and pitchers stack up against each other from one decade to the next, and how changes in the game ? from Babe Ruth?s fence-busting bat to the rise of the relief specialist to the designated hitter ? have made performance comparisons from one era to the next more challenging ? and, with the right statistical insights, absolutely fascinating. Baseball?s Best Decade is the only source that compares combined major league performances on a decade-by-decade basis. Which decade did produce baseball?s real golden age? The answers are finally available. And they?ll surprise you. Enjoy the memories.