ɪt wʌzɐ kwˈɔntəm lˈiːp fɹʌm ˈɜːli bˈeɪsbɔːl ɛnsˌaɪkloʊpˈiːdiəz, wɪð ɐ bɹˈɛdθ ænd dˈɛpθ ðæt fˈɑːɹ ɛksˈiːdᵻd ˈɛnɪθˌɪŋ ðæt hæd kˈʌm bᵻfˈoːɹ ɪt.
It was a quantum leap from early baseball encyclopedias, with a breadth and depth that far exceeded anything that had come before it.