Buy Baseball America's recently released "Hall of Fame Almanac." Great 1-page entries for every member of the Hall of Fame.
The book I would like to see written is a comparison of those who made the Hall of Fame to those whose stats as measured by modern metrics would not have warranted inclusion and those whose stats would have warranted inclusion. For example, Rabbit Maranville is by no stretch a Hall of Famer, nor are the several members of the Giants and Cardinals who played in the thirties who made the Hall of Fame because their teammates were on the Veterans' Committee. Or, to paraphrase from Baseball Prospectus, there is a Hall of Fame and a Hall of Very Good.
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As an open book, written for a thesis
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