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Book Review: Closer
The role of a closer may be the most mysterious position in baseball. In order to succeed,...
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Book Review: Trading Bases
Every once in a while a book about baseball will come out that is different than...
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Book Review: Any Given Monday
If you watch baseball, heck, if you watch any major sport, you have probably heard the three...
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Book Review: The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown
If the first four renditions of books about baseball bloopers weren’t enough to tide you over, have...
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Red Sox Baseball in the Days of Ike and Elvis: The Red Sox of the 1950s
The Society for American Baseball Research (aka SABR) are happy to announce the release of our book...
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Book Review: Yankee Miracles
The New York Yankees are arguably the most successful and popular professional franchise, not just in Major League...
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Book Review: Stillpower
Why does everything worth anything have to be so unbelievably hard to achieve? Well, according to Garret...
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A Review: Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
There’s more to sabermetrics than FIP,WARP, and BABIP. These statistics that have been filtering into the baseball...
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Book Review: Ozzie’s School of Management
If anyone who even casually follows the game of baseball was asked to name the most controversial...
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Book Review: Starting and Closing
Not many players in the history of baseball had as unpredictable a career as John Smoltz. Usually...
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Book Review: Major League Dads
Is there anything more American than a game of catch between a father and his son? For...
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Book Review: Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick
Those who are not aware of the history and importance of Bill Veeck, and his influence over...
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Book Review: Wherever I Wind Up
R.A. Dickey is not a name that shoots to the front of most baseball fans minds when...
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Book Review: Summer of ’68 by Tim Wendel
For baseball, the 1960s were an extremely memorable decade. Every fall it seemed that there were heated...
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Book Review: High Fives, Pennant Drives, and Fernandomania
Recent history has not been kind to the Los Angeles Dodgers. However, in Paul Haddad’s new book,...
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A Review: Baseball Fantography: A Celebration in Snapshots and Stories from the Fans
Fans are no doubt what make the game of baseball so popular, especially at the Major League...
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Bill’s Analysis/Book Review: The Little White Book of Baseball Law
Law can be an extremely boring subject. This may deter people from reading John Minan and Kevin...
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Bill’s Analysis/Book Review: Deadball
There’s a feeling that many get when they are watching the classic baseball movie Field of Dreams...
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A Book Review: Jack and Larry by Barbara Gregorich
What do you get when you cross a successful Major Leaguer, one of the most historic teams...
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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, A Book Review
A mention of Mickey Mantle seems to start more arguments about where his rightful place is on...
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The Big Show: Charles M Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs, A Book Review
While there are strong debates raging today as to what sport should not be considered America’s pastime...
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A Moment in Time, A Book Review
It’s amazing how fast one’s life can change. In one split second on October 3,1951 aveteran pitcher...
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Six Decades of Baseball: A Book Review
Author Bill Lewers has possibly lived a life many baseball fans would trade for. In his work,...
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October 1964: A Book Review
Ironically the time period with the least amount of time spent on it in David Halberstam’s book...
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The Fireball Kid: A Book Review
Novels about sports, specifically baseball, usually fall in one of two categories. Either they are written about...
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“Circle Change” by Gabriel Busch: A Book Review
In “Circle Change”, author Gabriel Busch attempts to fuse a love story with a profound tale...
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A Review of…Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
If you are a baseball fan, chances are, you spend countless hours every year...
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The Way of Baseball – Finding Stillness at 95 MPH : A Book Review
Stillness is not something most people think of when they picture a fastball being thrown in their...
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