- A review of Lee Panas’ Beyond Batting Average by Neil Paine on Baseball-Reference.com. Upshot: “The point of a book like this is to simply & effectively explain what each metric does, why it’s important, and how it builds on the stats that came before. Panas does a very good job of this….”
- Joe Posnanski is looking for a few good sports books.
- Cuban baseball historian and author Peter Bjarkman was a guest on NPR’s All Things Considered recently to talk about baseball cards. You can listen to the segment and.or read the transcript of the interview.
- The Houston Press gives Doug Glanville’s The Game From Where I Stand a middling review and I must say I find some of the criticisms irrelevant and others simply unfair.
- Following the hiring of Ari Kaplan (no relation) by the Cubs, View from the Bleavhers posted this review of How Bill James Changed Our View Of Baseball. Actually it’s not so much a review as selected quotes from the authors who contributed essays.
Bits and pieces
July 4, 2010
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