Setting the record straight: Baseball's greatest batters - Hardcover

"Stephen Grimble's RGA separates myth from reality and not only identifies the greatest hitters in baseball history but also provides today's general managers with a simple and effective statistic to evaluate modern day batters who command salaries in excess of $10 million per year." Ruly Carpenter, Former President of the Philadelphia Phillies

Author Stephen Grimble is certain to get arguments from fans who read his provocative book Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters. Grimble names the 50 greatest hitters of the 20th century by using four methods. Top five: Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg. -- Hal Bodley, USA Today, 6/19/98

Baseball fans in love with statistics--and it comes with the territory--will be interested in Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters. Stephen Grimble offers several new statistics that indicate the "real" value of major-league hitters, most crucially what he calls the run generation index (RGI). Like Bill James and other numbers mavens, Grimble rightly finds batting average and other traditional statistics insufficient. He has reasons why his numbers are more effective than those of James and his cohorts. -- Gary Mullinax, Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, DE 4/19/98