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Maple Street Press Mets Annual 2010
I know you already love the Amazin' Avenue Annual, and while the print version should be available later this week, the Maple Street Press Mets Annual has been available since early this month and it's 128 pages of full-color Metsity goodness. Greg Spira, one of the MSP's editors (and someone who...
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010
I received my copy of The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 (THTBA) more than a month ago, but a variety of circumstances have conspired to postpone its review until now. One obvious reason for its delay is the depth and breadth of written coverage within the annual itself, which as you might...
The Bill James Handbook 2010
Each season, just as the World Series draws to a close the baseball annual season gets cranking, and each November 1st we get the new Bill James Handbook, an offseason tradition that stretches back for the better part of a decade now. This year, with the World Baseball Classic pushing back the...
Book Review: The Yankee Years – Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Note: From now on whenever I finish a book on baseball, I plan on sharing what I thought of it with all of you. Hope you find them useful in determining you own reading selection. I have always been interested in measuring how managers affect ballgames, so when I saw Joe Torre wrote a book, I...
Saturday Book Review: The Complete Game
The thinking in the clubhouse when a position player is struggling is that he's giving it his all. Pitchers, on the other hand, are held to an entirely different standard; we might be ballplayers, but we're not necessarily athletes. At least, we're not the same kind of athlete as our...
The Bill James Gold Mine 2009
The new Bill James Gold Mine 2009 dropped on March 17 and it features unique stats and commentary on all 30 Major League teams as well as a ton of new essays by James. As with last year's edition, James sprinkles each chapter with "nuggets", which are short and often fascinating blurbs about a...
The Hardball Times Season Preview 2009
The Hardball Times Season Preview is the forward-looking companion to their Baseball Annual, a retrospective of the prior season. After a brief intro and projected standings for 2009 (Mets in first -- Yay!) the book rolls right into the thick: a chapter apiece on each big league team, penned by...
Graphical Player 2009
Billions of people play fantasy baseball every year1. To satiate this global appetite, countless websites provide fantasy-specific content to cater to these fanatics. There are plenty of books out there, too, which likewise provide custom projections, stats, commentary and other tools to help you...
Sunday Book Review: Baseball Field Guide
Baseball's not a very complicated game, but a cursory glance at the MLB Rulebook might lead one to believe otherwise. I'm glad that MLB makes their rules available online; I used to buy the hard copy version of it to peruse at home, and even now I'll refer to it every so often, but since I spend...
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