This site offers dozens of reviews of baseball titles written by readers like ourselves (Scroll down to “sports”; there’s a link specifically for baseball titles).
Typically, the publisher’s press release tops the individual page, followed by reader reviews and ratings.
Think Amazon.com without all the ordering information and clutter.
Like most criticism, the reviews can be very subjective. For example, observe these two offerings on a book taken totally at random, Baseball Prospectus 2006:
Reviewer A
The Baseball Information Derby
(Rating 5 av 5)
Simply, the best annual publication about major league baseball. Hardball Times would be #2. Somewhere in the dust is the rest of the field.
Reviewer B
Sophmoric [sic] nonsense
(Rating 1 av 5)
This is a horrible example of sophmoric “witty” commentary paired with the idiocy of stat-based evaluation. If irrelevant asides were not enough, they are mostly wrong as regards players from the team I follow closely, the Oakland A’s. Take the notes on Houston Street (“never will be in the Lidge/Rivera class”), Zito (“overrated”), minor leaguer Travis Buck (stupid comments on his name, totally inappropriate), Ander Ethier (overmatached in the big leagues). Where their prognastications are reasonable, a simple extrapolation from previous years (anyone could do it in their head) would suffice, not some pseudo sophisticated computer program. I hate this book.
Read ReviewScout.com with a grain of salt.
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