The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract88 reviews Bill James Free Press, 2003 the man and the work that put sabermetrics on the map + Insightful and Entertaining, but Win Shares needs an overhaul + The essential baseball book + An awesome book to have on your shelf             The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.25 reviews Robert Coover Plume, 1971 Book review + Intellectually brilliant but humanly lacking + The Boxscores Were Enough + Homo Ludens + A Brilliant Allegory of Something or Other             The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It72 reviews Lawrence S. Ritter Harper Paperbacks, 1992 Baseball's Old Testament + Lives Up To The Hype - The Best Baseball Book Ever + The Holy Grail of all Baseball Books + Historical treasure + Greatest Sports Book Ever Written!!!             Baseball: The Writer's Game1 review Mike Shannon Potomac Books, 2002 Great Inside Look at Baseball Writers! I can't begin to state how much I enjoyed this book. I have a fairly extensive collection of baseball books, and this is the only one that I've seen on this subject. The author basically conducted interviews with 17 notable baseball writers, then transformed them into flowing narratives. I ...             The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw12 reviews Michael Sokolove Simon & Schuster, 2006 Outstanding Book! + Life's true stories are often tough to read + Good Book + LIFE + SPORTS = LIFE + Good overall book, but not really about baseball             Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy6 reviews Jules Tygiel Oxford University Press, USA, 1997 A book that increased my understanding + Baseball as History + Real Eye-Opener + Exceeds Expectations + Well Done             Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia7 reviews Total Sports, 2000 The best biographical reference work yet + Most interesting historical baseball book + A beautiful book for the browsing baseball buff + A One of a Kind Baseball Reference             Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball--and America8 reviews Steve Jacobson Lawrence Hill Books, 2007 Excellent Book, 5+++ Stars! + Carrying Jackie's Torch + An ugly and shameful period of baseball + Reminders Are Good For All Of Us + From a Colleague             The Meaning Of Sports10 reviews Michael Mandelbaum PublicAffairs, 2005 Superb! A great mind applied to a great subject + AN EXTRAORDINARY BOOK: FUN TO READ AND PROFOUND, AS WELL + FULL OF INSIGHT AND WIDSOM: VERY READABLE & ENJOYABLE + PERFECT GIF FOR FATHERS' DAY OR ANY DAY + Mandelbaum's work teaches us all.             Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero62 reviews David Maraniss Simon & Schuster, 2006 Off the field excellence, too + His passion and pride make him more human; his priorities make him a saint + Excellent Biography: 4.5 Stars As with David Maraniss' excellent bio of Vince Lombardi, the most appealing parts are that which cover off the field, hitting the life and times and getting into the character of the athlete. And in Lombardi and Clemente, we learn about two intense men. Maraniss gets into baseball to a satisfactory ...             How Bill James Changed Our View of the Game of Baseball7 reviews Rob Neyer, Alan Schwarz ACTA Sports, 2007 A Slim But Important Volume + Only for Those Already Within the Temple My favorite Bill James insight has absolutely nothing to do with baseball. It was in the Abstract the year he bought a computer, and the insight was that computers are incredibly dumb. He would type things the way he always had, and then make one mistake and the computer would execute that ...             Baseball Hacks: Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics (Hacks)15 reviews Joseph Adler O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Baseball Hacks, the "How to" manual for Moneyball + Good explanations + Tips & Tools For Analyzing Baseball Data + Baseball/Computer Nerds Unite!             Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded18 reviews Gene Carney Potomac Books Inc., 2006 Captivating - a must read + the best book on the black sox + Well-researched and informative + The culmination (sort of) of a ton of research             A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Miraculous and Unlikely Beginning of the Baseball Hall of Fame4 reviews Jim Reisler Da Capo Press, 2006 A great day to read this book Like a relaxing train ride, "A Great Day in Cooperstown" is a wonderful trip to the past. Mr. Reisler captures the mood and tempo of an earlier time, when the heroes were giants and baseball was the apple of the nation's eye. Myths are gently laid aside and bronze plaques are left in their place. ...             USA Today/Sports Weekly Best Baseball Writing 20051 review Da Capo Press, 2005 Excellent Contemporary Baseball Writing Sometimes with baseball we tend to get too nostalgic, and sometimes we fall into the same trap with baseball writers. Well, this book provides an array of contemporary baseball writing that is also outstanding. There are truly many fine baseball writers today--including Bill Madden, Paul White, and ...             Hammering Hank: How the Media Made Henry Aaron2 reviews Mark Stewart, Mike Kennedy The Lyons Press, 2006 Hammering Hank NAILS It I challenge even the most dedicated fan of 1960s and 70s baseball and Hank Aaron to read this book and not come away with an entirely new appreciation for the times that Hank had to endure while he was shattering baseball's most revered record. Mssrs. Kennedy and Stewart have crafted a thoroughly ...             The Natural100 reviews Bernard Malamud Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 A must for any literate baseball fan + Not so sugary sweet + The Defining Work My father was an English teacher who also happened to be a baseball fanatic, and I still have his marked-up copy of "The Natural" somewhere in the basement. He actually built an entire English class around baseball fiction, with this book as its centerpiece. You can't help but appreciate the ...             Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports110 reviews Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams Gotham, 2006 The Changing Face (and Body) of Sports + Great, Great, Book. 'nuff said. + Well written + The Authority in the topic of steroids + BALCO + BARRY = Baseball's Beguiled Bondage             The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics28 reviews Alan Schwarz St. Martin's Griffin, 2005 a must have book + 5+ Stars - A Must For Your Baseball Library + I saw myself in this book + And the people who play it...             Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series11 reviews David Pietrusza Basic Books, 2003 Fantastic, historical read! + Goes beyond "the fix" + The man behind an empire! + Enigmatic man + Solid work on an amazing man