The Bookshelf Conversation: Keith Law

April 27, 2020

I think these things are coming along nicely, don’t you? Every time, I learn how do so something new. Fun.

Most recently, I got to continue this experiment with Keith Law, author of The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves. One of the things I appreciate about our guest is that, despite his superior intelligence — undergrad degree from Harvard, MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon — he has the ability to explain his ideas in terms anyone can understand. And, of course, when I say “anyone” I mean me.

Keith Law | The Inside Game

As we discuss in the Conversation, The Inside Game is not wholly about baseball, but, well, life. I enjoy that it makes me think, as opposed to most books about the game that are basically just about the game. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; Law’s previous book, Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball, was enjoyable for that reason (although his ideas about statistics make you think as well).

Law is also an interesting guy outside of baseball, as you will learn.

 

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