How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball – edited by Gregory F. Augustine Pierce

This is the third book I’ve read in the past year about Bill James – the guy credited with developing the current storm around baseball statistics – you might be familiar with the term “sabermetrics,” well that’s what Bill James is deemed the father of.
And frankly – I’m not crazy about this one. In short [...]

The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything, edited by Mark Reiter & Richard Sandomir

When a book makes you both stand up and say “What the hell was he thinking?” on one page while inducing a fist pumping “Yes!” on the next – you know it’s got something going for it.
Welcome to Bracketology — the new way of clean-cutting through decision making and opining.
You’re probably already familiar with the [...]

The Only Game In Town by Fay Vincent

This collection of personal narratives from players in the 1930s and 1940s chronicles a turbulent time in baseball and American society – post-depression, World War II and the integration of major league baseball highlight this period, and the stories players tell are reflections of their experiences.
These personal narratives are transcribed recordings of interviews that Fay [...]