Barry Bonds has emerged, statistically, as the most feared hitter since Babe Ruth. Bonds, winner of a record six MVP awards, holds the single-season record for home-runs, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and walks, and is the only player ever to have hit 500 home-runs and stolen 500 bases.

Let the debates begin: This new series presents biographies of the twelve best hitters in the history of Major League Baseball, as selected by Greenwood's Editorial Board.
- Authored by some of today's top baseball writers, each thoroughly-researched biography is concise yet sophisticated.
- Each substantial volume will serve as both high school and college student research resources or simply as pleasure reading for public library patrons.
- Volumes provide considerably more information than do young-adult biographies, but are much more accessible to students than longer, mainstream tomes.
- Each volume discusses the player's youth and development, early playing career, rise to stardom, and post-baseball life.
- Each volume includes a final chapter that assesses the building of the player's legend and examines significant related books, film, etc.
- A series foreword carefully explains reasons for each player's selection to series.
- Photos, a timeline, and a bibliography enhance and round out each volume.