Ron Shandler and the staff at BaseballHQ.com return with the 23rd edition of their Baseball Forecaster – does it maintain it’s track record of success?
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January 8, 2009
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2009
Here we are mired in the middle of the off-season, constantly checking our team’s pots and pans on the Hot Stove to see if anything is cooking, done, or in some cases, smells fishy.
While players are only a few weeks away from reporting to Spring Training and are undoubtedly hard at work in the weight [...]
November 23, 2008
Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball: A History – by Joel S. Franks
Ichiro, Dice-K, Matsui, Okajima, Nomo – all names that most baseball fans are well aware of, and all names that come from Japan.
But the history of players with Asian ancestry goes much farther and deeper than just those who we see on the big league diamond today, which is the jumping off point for Joel [...]
November 19, 2008
The Portland Sea Dogs by Wendy Sotos
As part of their ‘Images of Baseball” series, Arcadia Publishing presents The Portland Sea Dogs, authored by Wendy Sotos.
This 127-page look at the history of the team that returned baseball to the state of Maine in 1994 is a photographic tour of the people, players, and ballpark that has become one of Minor League Baseball’s [...]
November 10, 2008
Red Sox Rule by Michael Holley
(I’m catching up on some books that came out in 2008 that I wasn’t able to get to during the regular season…a bit shorter review than normal, but hopefully enough to give you some insight to the book.)
Without question, the Red Sox have been one of the most dominant teams in the past five years, [...]
November 4, 2008
Fans of the World Unite! A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers – by Stephen F. Ross and Stefan Szymanski
What better day than Election Day to talk about a book calling for an uprising of sports fans and a major reform of the four major sports leagues in the United States?
Thus we have Fans of the World Unite! by Stephen F. Ross and Stefan Szymanski, and published by Stanford University Press.
Now while this isn’t [...]
November 3, 2008
The Bill James Handbook 2009
Time to get back on the horse and talk about some new baseball books…and what better to end the playoff hiatus than the world famous Bill James Handbook 2009.
So assuming you haven’t been hiding under a rock for the past 30 years or so, and you have even the slightest interest in statistical analysis and/or [...]
October 8, 2008
New reviews coming soon
A quick note to those who stop by the site regularly – stay tuned for some new reviews in the coming days. After the regular season, I try and take a few weeks off to catch up with some other reading, notably something other than baseball books.
If you’re interested, I just finished Dick Meyer’s Why [...]
September 14, 2008
The End of Baseball – by Peter Schilling, Jr.
The choices we don’t make in life sometimes plague us more than those that we do; how would my life be different (read: better) if I had taken that job, made that phone call, married that other person? Where would I be? What would I be doing?
Well take that way of thinking, and apply it [...]
