What’s on Second? A literary recap

March 15, 2011

The Bookshelf topic on the March 14 Internet broadcast of What’s on Second was some events in baseball history that are marking milestone anniversaries in 2011. Among them:

Hank Greenberg’s 100th birthday

Joe DiMaggio;’s 56-game hitting streak

The 50th anniversary of the establishment of the New York Mets

The evening’s first guest was Jonah Keri, author of the new analysis of the Tampa bay Rays’ front office, The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First, which is already being compared with Michael Lewis’ classic, Moneyball. Keri also served as editor of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, one of the first “popular” books (i.e., produced by a major publisher) to delve into the concept of using sabermetrics to judge player and team performances.

You can listen to last night’s webcast here.

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