Cracking the MLB superstar code: These 24 players will rule baseball in 2021

When I was a kid, our elementary school used to have these book fairs, run by Scholastic book publishers. The company set up a display in the lobby outside the library, their various books for sale, and each spring I would spend a dollar or two on the latest edition of "All-Pro Baseball Stars." I guess the book fairs are still around, although the last edition of "All-Pro Baseball Stars" appears to be 1984.

It was a wonderful little paperback, 92 or 96 pages long, with two-page bios of the best players from the previous season, plus some statistics and standings and so on. Bruce Weber was the author, and he began the series in 1976. Before that, there was a similar series simply called…