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Placing my pre-order now: The Complete History of the Montreal Expos

June 24, 2011

Would if I could upon learning that Jonah (The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First) Keri is working on the “definitive” history of the team. Although I was not born there, my maternal side hails from that city and I have fond memories of family […]

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Author appearance update: Gelf Event, May 5

May 3, 2011

Please note there’s a new venue for the May 5 Varsity Letters program hosted by Gelf Magazine featuring Jonah Keri, Harvey Frommer and Lang Whittaker. The event will be held at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E. 11th St. (between Broadway and University Pl.) in Manhattan. Enjoy! Looks like a fun night.

Tagged as: Harvey frommer, Jonah Keri, Lang Whittaker

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Authors appearance: Gelf hosts Frommer, Keri, and Whitaker

April 15, 2011

Harvey Frommer (Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox), Jonah Keri (The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First), and Lang Whitaker (In the Time of Bobby Cox: The Atlanta Braves, Their Manager, My Couch, Two Decades, […]

Tagged as: Bobby Cox, Fenway Park, Harvey frommer, Jonah Keri, Lang Whitaker, Tampa Bay Rays

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Shameless self-promotion, March 14 edition

March 14, 2011

I’ll be making my weekly guest spot on the What’s on Second Internet radio program tonight (I hope you all remembered to change your clocks). I usually show up around 9:40 and will be discussing the 2011 releases that highlight anniversaries of major milestones. Montreal landsman Jonah Keri (The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies […]

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Giving it 110%

March 12, 2011

Well, in this case, it’s The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First, by Jonah Keri. Keri, who published the excellent Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong in 2006, took a in-depth look at inner workings of the Tampa […]

Tagged as: Jonah Keri, Moneyball, Rob Neyer, Tampa Bay Rays

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Bits and pieces (occasional links dump)

March 6, 2011

Baseball Past and Present offers this list of 10 favorites baseball titles, only a couple of which might surprise. Fenway West, a Red Sox (duh)-centric blog, posted this review of Jonah Keri’s The Extra 2%. Upshot: “Move over Moneyball, there is a new addition to the business of baseball library.” There’s also a feature on […]

Tagged as: Bill James, Jonah Keri, Lip Pike, Moneyball, Tampa Bay Rays

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Now hear this: Sam Fuld

January 12, 2011

My Montreal homeboy Jonah Keri conducted this podcast interview with Fuld, who was recently traded from the Chicago Cubs to the Tampa Bay Rays. Maybe Fuld, a defensive whiz (Keri links to a couple of prime plays), can get some more playing time with the Rays than he did in Chicago. By the way, Keri […]

Tagged as: Jonah Keri, Sam Fuld, Tampa Bay Rays

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* Author video interview: Jonah Keri

May 2, 2008

The editor of Baseball Between the Numbers interviewed by Authors@Google last July. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.527325&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26]

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