Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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from the very stats-oriented blog, Walk Like a Sabermetrician. It would seem that the reviewer did not like this one too much, resorting to key phrases such as “the downside is…”, “the problem is…”, etc. Sounds like heresy, coming from a blog named like this one. Now I’m not a hardcore stats guy, and maybe […]
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From ACTA Sports, publisher of the Bill James Hold Mine 2008: Bill James…will appear on the CBS TV news show 60 Minutes on Sunday March 30. The program will air at 7:00pm ET/PT. Morley Safer and the 60 Minutes crew interviewed James over the course of three days at the World Champion Boston Red Sox […]
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Acta Sports, 2008 When Bill James came out with his Baseball Abstracts in the early 1980s, I thought I had discovered forbidden fruit. For this first time, here were cogent numbers accompanied by scintillating commentary, the best of both world’s for a fan. Each team’s major players got their due, as James offered his “scouting […]
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The New Ballgame: Understanding Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan, by Glenn Guzzo (ACTA Sports). A brief review of a brief book. Guzzo does a nice job explaining the key stats to newcomers to the game who want to enhance their experience by adding that numerical component, rather than “just watching.” He also offers an […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
