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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of... more

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    • Posted:Sep-28-2009
    • Great Book, but failed philosoophy
    • All the recent reviews state that they are not baseball fans.
      The book is well written and has a great mini-story on Bill James.
      One problem: The philosophy of Billy Beane hasn't come to...
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    • Posted:Jul-23-2008
    • good, but doesn't beat the curve
    • The problem with giving a Michael Lewis book five stars is that there is much better stuff out there. Lewis can be entertaining, and, to give credit, he hits out of the park in his choice of topic...
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    • Posted:Feb-11-2006
    • needs a bigger picture of Lewis on the back cover
    • I was interested in the story, namely the Oakland A's philosophy of winning on a tight budget, but I was let down by the writer. There was nothing in the way that Michael Lewis wrote this book to...
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Science of Hitting

Science of Hitting

Ted Williams is our greatest living expert on how to hit a baseball -- the last baseball player to hit .400 in the... more

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    • Posted:Jan-22-2009
    • Ted Williams The Scienec of Hitting
    • An excellent book that is meant to be read by anyone that considers the art of baseball hitting as a science! Williams the last great 400 plus hitter in baseball demonstrates through his schemas...
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    • Posted:Jan-13-2003
    • Very wordy, but a good read
    • The late great TW writes, or most likely, dictates, this book with John Underwood. The book reads as if it's Ted talking, and it feels as if he and I went on a fishing trip, and he was just talking...
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Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks

Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners,...

Whether you?re a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or teaching game to a beginner, Watching... more

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    • Great for the baseball geek's significant other
    • I'm a deeply professed baseball geek, sabremetrics aficianado, and obsessive baseball watcher. I bought this for a quick read through and a help for my darling girlfriend, who struggles to...
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    • Posted:Sep-04-2009
    • Kindle Edition FAIL
    • This review is of the Kindle Edition.

      In the statistics section, there are numerous arithmetic formulae. For some reason, the author or typographer chose to use the ? symbol rather than...
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    • Posted:Jul-10-2009
    • For Beginners Only
    • I read this at the suggestion of a friend. I'm a lifelong baseball fan who works in professional sports. I attend 5-12 games a year, and watch about 3 times that number on television and the...
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Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox

Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the...

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The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It

The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who...

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    • Essential Reading
    • It is difficult to add to the justifiable praise that has been accorded to Lawrence S. Ritter's book "The Glory of Their Times." This remarkable book served as the template for many other baseball...
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    • Posted:Jul-09-2002
    • A Missed Opportunity
    • While Ritter has deservedly received a great deal of credit for this groundbreaking book, being the first person to committ ballplayers from the early part of this century to tape and then present...
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The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball

The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball

Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James's Baseball... more

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    • Posted:Oct-02-2008
    • Best math book on baseball ever.
    • The authors of "The Book" reveal truths of baseball derived from careful statistical analysis. The clear explanations are such that any person who can understand percentages will gain insight from...
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    • Posted:Apr-18-2008
    • I Just Don't Get the Hype
    • I've been devouring sabermetrics, at least of the mass variety, since I first started reading Bill James in the 80s. The Number 1 thing I learned from Bill is to ask useful questions, then define...
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Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time

Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time

What does it mean to play heads-up baseball? A heads-up player has confidence in his ability, keeps control in... more

The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond

The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from...

At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck... more

The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance

The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance

In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the... more

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    • Posted:Aug-14-2009
    • Great Book
    • My son and I find this book so helpful. Every page you find yourself learning something. I will recommended this for any serious baseball player and for those want to improved their skills mentally.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics

The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics

This unprecedented book provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics-their keeping, their study, their... more

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    • Posted:Jun-05-2009
    • Superb
    • This book traces the evolution of baseball statistics as well as the fight to have accurate historical records. We go back to pioneers such as Henry Chadwick,Ernie Lanigan,John Heydler,the Elias...
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    • Posted:Jan-15-2007
    • Wow, Stats Have Finally Jumped the Shark
    • I'm a geek and a stats-head.

      But, even I got bored with this book about the history of stats. It was informative, but a history of stats? Augh...
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    • Posted:Aug-25-2004
    • Solid stuff
    • Simply put, the strength of Schwarz's work is in the statistics. The first few chapters provide a very interesting, and sometimes comical, look at how the stats we take for granted today came to...
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. I wrote this book because I... more

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    • Great Book, but failed philosoophy
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      The book is well written and has a great mini-story on Bill James.
      One problem: The philosophy of Billy Beane hasn't come to...
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    • Posted:Jul-23-2008
    • good, but doesn't beat the curve
    • The problem with giving a Michael Lewis book five stars is that there is much better stuff out there. Lewis can be entertaining, and, to give credit, he hits out of the park in his choice of topic...
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    • needs a bigger picture of Lewis on the back cover
    • I was interested in the story, namely the Oakland A's philosophy of winning on a tight budget, but I was let down by the writer. There was nothing in the way that Michael Lewis wrote this book to...
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The Baseball Drill Book

The Baseball Drill Book

Get more out of each practice! The Baseball Drill Book presents 198 activities to sharpen every aspect of player and... more

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    • Posted:Jun-23-2009
    • TONS of Good Drills
    • All drills not for all ages, but you can definitely find many drills for any age group in this book, well worth the money I paid on Amazon. I've recently purchased several youth baseball coaching...
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    • Posted:Nov-11-2007
    • Not so great for younger players
    • I bought this hoping for practice and drill ideas for my 7-year-old baseball nut son. While I'm sure it will be great in future years (high school), it has very little of use for younger players...
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The SABR Baseball List & Record Book: Baseball's Most Fascinating Records and Unusual Statistics

The SABR Baseball List & Record Book: Baseball's Most Fascinating...

From the authority on baseballresearch and statistics comes a vastand fascinating compendium of uniquebaseball lists... more

Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball

Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball

In Men at Work, political pundit George Will breaks baseball down, parsing it into essential tasks: hitting,... more

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    • Posted:Sep-23-2009
    • A breakthrough in understanding...
    • A few disclaimers are in order on this review. As is generally known, George Will is a prominent conservative pundit, one of the apostles of the "free-market" ideology that lies in shambles at our...
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    • Posted:Apr-20-2009
    • Dumb
    • Mr. Will, what you've just wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent book were you even close to anything that could be considered...
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    • Posted:May-25-2006
    • George Will hits a single
    • George Will romantacizes baseball by selecting a few of the more moral and serious members of the sport, and applauding their virtue and hard work. Albeit the book was written in the early 1990's...
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Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston's Rise to Dominance

Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston's Rise to Dominance

The story of the changing face of baseball and the inner workings of its finest organization After a hundred... more

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    • Posted:Apr-04-2009
    • pro baseball (and Red Sox) fun
    • It's hard to rate this book. I'm a big baseball fan and an even bigger Red Sox fan. I loved reading this book, and thought a lot about it when I wasn't reading, eager to get back to it. My 5 star...
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    • Posted:Nov-10-2008
    • You have to be a Red Sox fan to really get into this one
    • Without question, the Red Sox have been one of the most dominant teams in the past five years, which is coincidentally when Terry Francona took over as manager. Brought to Beantown following the...
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed... more

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    • Posted:Aug-27-2009
    • Excellent gift for a baseball fan; 1,000+ pages is a great value
    • Having read an earlier version of Bill James' classic historical abstract, I purchased this as updated version as a gift for a friend who works as a baseball announcer for the local American Legion...
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    • Posted:Jul-02-2008
    • Bill James Has Completely Lost It.


    • Bill Jame's 100 greatest players the NEW list starts around page 358 and reaches peak idiocy on page 360 where he explains that Lou Gehrig wasn't in the top ten because if he and Ruth...
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    • Posted:Feb-27-2003
    • A must-have for lovers of sabermetrics....
    • .... but not quite as ground-breaking as the original edition.

      Overall, it is a definitive book to have on your baseball shelf. James rates many more players than he did in 1987 and introduces a...

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics,...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries,... more

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    • "A great read"
    • Jonathan Mahler has written a fantastic book in which he chronicles life in New York City circa 1977-It's over 350 pages,but it's compelling nonetheless.
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    • Posted:Dec-22-2007
    • "Some Martians landed in Central Park today...and were mugged"---Johnny Carson
    • I liked the ESPN miniseries "The Bronx is Burning" so much I decided to get the book, too. I liked the television series way better. I think the main reason is that the ESPN show, which of course...
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    • Posted:Sep-12-2007
    • so-so
    • It didnt focus on the yankees as much as i thought it would, and when it did, most of it was about Reggie. All the events of that summer were interesting and I remembered a lot of it happening too...
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The Softball Drill Book

The Softball Drill Book

Packed with over 180 drills straight from the practice sessions of the game's most successful programs, The... more

My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life (Fireside Sports Classics)

My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life (Fireside Sports Classics)

Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and... more

The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball

The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball

This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game - May 4, 1871,... more

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