Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time is a non-fiction

Non-fiction

Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...

 baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 book, co-written by Rob Neyer

Rob Neyer

Rob Neyer is a baseball author and writer for SB Nation. He started his career working for Bill James and STATS, and then joined ESPN.com as a columnist from 1996 to January 2011 before becoming SB Nation's National Baseball Editor...

 and Eddie Epstein. It was published in April 2000 by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

Contents

25 different MLB "dynasties" (defined as teams with exceptional three-year runs) are profiled in separate chapters, all with league records, written accounts of the season, and other related baseball facts in sidebars.

At the end, the clubs are ranked, and a conclusion is reached that the 1939 New York Yankees

1939 New York Yankees season

The New York Yankees season was the team's 37th season in New York, and its 39th overall. The team finished with a record of 106-45, winning their 11th pennant, finishing 17 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee...

 are the greatest team of all time.

The two authors acknowledged that their work is heavily influenced by baseball statistician Bill James

Bill James

George William “Bill” James is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics...

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External links

• Additional materials related to the book, posted at RobNeyer.com