Ultimate Guide to Baseball

by James Buckley Jr.

- A spread of amazing trivia about each professional team
- History of the early days of the game
- Pioneers in the sport
- Photographs of today's stars and the legends of the game
- Comic illustrations
- High-interest stats, stars, and lists
- An appendix that gives a quick primer on the some of the least-known rules of the game

160 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2010

About the author

In addition to his work as a professional editor, James Buckley, Jr., is also the author of many books on American sports that are geared toward young fans and budding athletes.

Buckley, who has founded a company called Shoreline Publishing Group to produce books for reluctant readers, maintains that sports are far more than simple hobbies or ways to burn off excess energy.

Reviews

[Jordan Watson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you know who created the game of basketball? Do you have any questions about basketball, anything at all? Well James Buckley Jr. answers all of those questions in the ultimate Guide to basketball. This book is filled with amazing stats, incredible facts, outstanding basketball stars and legends of the game and a lot more information about basketball. If you enjoy basketball, if you enjoy even sports you would like to read this book. This book can even teach you all about the positions, rules, even basketball plays. The greatest of the greatest from pass to present. You will probably know everything about basketball after reading this book, from the NBA to the WNBA to college. I would suggest this amazing book to all readers that like to read sports book.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This won;t stay on my shelves long. Zac has already called dibs before I take it back to school...after I found it under his pillow.

[Johnny]

This book is loaded with a ton of facts, stats, pictures, rules, and a lot of other stuff about old-time basketball and modern basketball.