title: The Baseball Maniac?s Almanac: The Absolutely, Positively, and without Question Greatest Book of Facts, Figures, and Astonishing Lists Ever Compiled
author: Bert Randolph Sugar
description: <div><B>Bert Randolph Sugar</B> has established himself as one of the world&#8217;s foremost sports historians. He is the former editor in chief of <I>The Ring</I> and <I>Fight Game</I> magazines and the author of more than eighty books, with over a dozen books on baseball. Past titles include <I>The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists</I>, <I>Bert Sugar&#8217;s Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America&#8217;s Greatest Game</I>, and <I>Fight or Die: The Vinny Paz Story</I>. Sugar passed away in 2012.<BR><BR><B>Ken Samelson</B> is an editor and author of several sports books. He is a former editor of the Macmillan <I>Baseball Encyclopedia</I> and co-author of <I>Amazing Mets Trivia</I>, <I>The Great All-Time Baseball Record Book</I>, <I>The Miracle Has Landed</I>, and <I>The Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia Quiz Book</I>. Samelson lives in Larchmont, New York.<BR><BR><B>Stuart Shea</B> is an editor and contributor to <I>The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball</I>, <I>The Emerald Guide to Baseball</I>, <I>Who&#8217;s Who in Baseball</I>, and SABR&#8217;s <I>Baseball Research Journal</I>. He is the author of two books on Wrigley Field, <I>Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines</I> and <I>Wrigley Field: An Unauthorized Biography</I>. Shea lives in Chicago, Illinois.</div>
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  SELECTED BOOKS BY PAUL DICKSON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Think Tanks_ (1971)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Great American Ice Cream Book_ (1972)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Electronic Battlefield_ (1976)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Future of the Workplace_ (1976)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Future File_ (1977)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Out of This World: American Space Photography_ (1977)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Official Rules_ (1978)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _On Our Own: A Declaration of Independence for the Self-Employed_ (1985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Library in America_ (1986)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Family Words_ (1988)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The New Official Rules_ (1989)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Slang_ (1990)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Timelines_ (1990)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Baseball's Greatest Quotations_ (1991)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C._ (with Douglas E.
  Evelyn) (1992)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Baseball: The President's Game_ (with William B. Mead) (1993)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Congress Dictionary_ (with Paul Clancy) (1993)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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