Or is it “pipe”; I can never keep that straight. Both seem valid. Anyway, time to see what new baseball books are on the horizon. Using Amazon as my source and just to let you know, I’m not including the titles that come out every year, such as Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster or Baseball America’s […]
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Ball Four,
baseaball stats,
Baseball Cards,
baseball memoirs,
Boston Red Sox,
David Cone,
Doc Gooden,
Houston Astros,
Jim Bouton,
Moneyball,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pitching,
Shoeless Joe Jackson,
Ted Williams
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Boston Red Sox,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Ted Williams,
World Series
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Baseball Cards,
baseball stadiums,
Boston Red Sox,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Jerry Remy,
Jim Bouton,
Moneyball,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pitching,
Ted Williams
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Baseball Cards,
baseball stadiums,
Boston Red Sox,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Jerry Remy,
Jim Bouton,
Moneyball,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pete Rose,
Pitching,
Ted Williams
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Baseball Cards,
baseball stadiums,
Boston Red Sox,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Jerry Remy,
Jim Bouton,
Moneyball,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pete Rose,
Pitching,
Ted Williams
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Boston Red Sox,
Casey Stengel,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Jerry Remy,
Jim Bouton,
Keith Hernandez,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pete Rose,
Pitching,
Ted Williams
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Boston Red Sox,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Jim Bouton,
Los Angeles Dodgers,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pete Rose,
Pitching,
Ted Williams
Happy Solstice, everybody! Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull […]
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Babe Ruth,
baseball stadiums,
Billy Bean,
Boston Red Sox,
Chicago Cubs,
David Cone,
hitting,
Houston Astros,
Moneyball,
New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Philadelphia Phillies,
Pitching,
Roger Angell,
Roger Kahn,
Ron Swoboda,
Yogi Berra
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Boston Red Sox,
Chicago Cubs,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
NY Yankees,
Pete Rose,
Philadlephia Phillies,
Pitching,
Ted Williams,
World Series
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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ballparks,
baseball analysis,
Cal Ripken Jr.,
Chicago Cubs,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
New York Yankees,
Pete Rose,
Philadelphia Phillies,
Rob Neyere,
sabermetrics,
Ted Williams
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Boston Red Sox,
Cal Ripken Jr.,
Chicago Cubs Philadelphia Phillies,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Moneyball,
MVP,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pete Rose,
Pitching,
Ted Williams,
World Series
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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baseball stadiums,
Cal Ripken Jr.,
Chicago Cubs,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Michael Lewis,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Philadelphia Phillies,
Pitching,
Ted Williams,
Yogi Berra
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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baseball statistics,
Chicago Cubs,
David Cone,
Houston Astros,
Michael Lewis,
Moneyball,
New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Philadelphia Phillies,
Pitching,
Ted Williams,
Yogi Berra
Haven’t done one of these in a while… I’ve long said that The Lords of the Realm was one of the underrated baseball books of all time. Apparently Ben Lindbergh (The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players and The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild […]
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Baseball Cards,
baseball strartegy,
Ernie Banks,
Houston Astros,
Michael Lewis,
Moneyball,
New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pete Rose,
Ron Darling,
Ted Williams
Headnote: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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baseball strartegy,
Chicago Cubs,
Ernie Banks,
Harry Caray,
Houston Astros,
Michael Lewis,
Moneyball,
New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pete Rose,
Ron Darling,
Ted Williams
Headnote: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Billy Martin,
Ernie Banks,
Houston Astros,
New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Oakland As,
Pitching,
Ron Darling,
Ted Williams
Headnote: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not longer be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them. But it’ll be close enough for government work. In addition, sometimes the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one by including a book in a category to which it […]
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Art Shamsky Ron Darling,
Ernie Banks,
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Moneyball,
New York Mets,
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Pitching,
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Ted Williams,
Tyler Kepner