Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire.

This is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.

That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book,

the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.

Today, Lincoln Mitchell returns to the podcast.

He's here to talk about his new book, The 100 Most Important Players in Baseball History.

You can check out Lincoln's work at his Substack, Kabitsing with Lincoln,

which you can find at lincolnmitchell.substack.com.

Let's get started.

Hi, Lincoln. Welcome back to Baseball by the book.

Thanks for having me back, Justin. It's always good to talk baseball with you.

You know, I was looking back at it, and I believe this is your fifth appearance on baseball by the book.

And I'm pretty sure you're the first person to have five appearances. So congratulations on that, I guess.

Thank you. Thank you. My next book, after this is not baseball related, but there's a little baseball in there, so maybe we can find a way to chat about that as well. Yeah, for sure. Well, so let's talk

about your new book. People, you know, who are listening to this podcast, have undoubtedly read many

books in their lifetimes that have some variation on the 100 best players in baseball.

You know, Joe Posnansky just did a really good book a couple years ago, and he was on the podcast to talk about it.

Bill James and his historical abstracts addressed that.

You know, there are books by Mari Allen and Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honing and all

sorts of people over years.

The concept, 100 players, is not new, but the way that you did it is a different spin on it, right?

So explain to people what is, what's the difference between the 100 most important players and just the 100 best players?

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