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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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.
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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, […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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