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 Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious GeeksBest Price: $7.85 Your view of this short book depends on how much you know about baseball already and how much... |  The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition (Espn Baseball Encyclopedia)Best Price: $12.47 We rely heavily on our ESPN's Baseball Encyclopedia when we have a question about baseball. We... |  The New Bill James Historical Baseball AbstractBest Price: $15.75 I have probably read this book 100 times. I still have the original hard cover and it is looking... |  The Book: Playing the Percentages in BaseballBest Price: $13.59 If you're truly interested in not only what's important in baseball, but how to decide if... |  The Bill James Gold Mine 2008Best Price: $13.92 A seminal event in my life was my discovery of James' Baseball Abstracts. His application of... |
 The Bill James Handbook 2008Best Price: $14.26 Was pleased with the fast good service. Book being used every day while watching baseball... |  Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is WrongBest Price: $2.76 great read. It shines some light into generally accepted baseball numbers. If you loved... |  Baseball Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Baseball Season (Baseball Prospectus)Best Price: $12.39 I thought bitting humor and brutal honesty were gone once "The Scouting Report" wimped... |  Baseball America 2008 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)Best Price: $18.35 This is the first time I've used BA's Prospect book, and I'm quite happy with it. I've used... |  Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in BaseballBest Price: $7.87 Thanks to Mr Gennaro for writting this book, i have found it very useful and very easy to... |
 How Bill James Changed Our View of the Game of BaseballBest Price: $11.96 Bill James has educated and influenced his readers in a way that few writers (or educators) ever... |  Baseball Hacks: Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics (Hacks)Best Price: $7.25 Baseball Hacks: Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics (Hacks), which comes... |  The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with StatisticsBest Price: $2.94 Yes, this is a book about baseball statistics and the numbers - but more than that, it discusses... |  The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and PitchesBest Price: $3.79 In reading this book, you can see the differences between the two writers - in fact, gimme a... |  Baseball America 2008 Almanac: A Comprehensive Review of the 2007 Season (Baseball America Almanac)Best Price: $12.44 It's 496 pages of baseball stats - the real kind, not the contrived Bill James geekazoid kind -,... |
 The Team-By-Team Encyclopedia of Major League BaseballBest Price: $0.77 What a great addition to any fan's library, The Team By Team encyclopedia of Major League... |  The SABR Baseball List & Record Book: Baseball's Most Fascinating Records and Unusual StatisticsBest Price: $4.45 a boring chore if you sit down to read from cover to cover. like reading recipe after recipe. ... |  Koppett's Concise History of Major League BaseballBest Price: $3.59 This is easily the most comprehensive look at baseball history out there. And it's written with... |  Baseball America 2008 Directory: Your Definitive Guide to the Game (Baseball America's Directory)Best Price: $15.54 The Sporting News Baseball Register I have been reading since I was a child 60 years ago. Over... |  Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball StatisticsBest Price: $29.95 Out of all the Sabermetrics books I've read, this exceeds my expectations. I've learned more... |
 Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for WinningBest Price: $4.00 The best thing about reading anything by the team that writes for the Baseball Prospectus is the... |  Now Batting, Number...: The Mystique, Superstition, and Lore of Baseball's Uniform NumbersBest Price: $2.55 I have to say, I was thrilled when I heard this book was coming out. There are so many holes in... |  Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the GameBest Price: $8.99 Jim Albert and Jay Bennett share two traits that make them the perfect authors for this type of... |  Win SharesBest Price: $335.48 A reader said earlier, if someone other than James wrote this book, no one would care. This is... |  Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Firsts (2008 Edition) (Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Firsts)Best Price: $4.02 This book is the baseball fan's dream. Packed with almost every record imaginable, even to... |
 The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008Best Price: $13.57 I enjoyed the articles contained within, but what I liked best were the recaps of the 2007... |  The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia, Third EditionBest Price: $17.80 The wealth of expertise from author/editor Russell Schneider is demonstrated in this hefty... |  It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race BookBest Price: $5.84 As the other reviewers have indicated, this book is full of choice details and interesting... |  Baseball: The Players, The World Series, The RecordsBest Price: $10.15 For baseball addicts, the sport is more than just a game: it’s a ritual, a form of... |  Baseball Hall of ShameBest Price: $6.74 This is an easy fun to read book detailing some of the lighter moments in baseball. The stories... |
 Cardinal Nation: 4TH Edition (Cardinal Nation)Best Price: $15.95 The third edition of Cardinal Nation was worth the wait because it includes the final season at... |  Baseball Prospectus 2007: The Essential Guide to the 2007 Baseball Season (Baseball Prospectus)Best Price: $3.73 Everything you want to know and more for a pre-season review of all the players. |  A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball FansBest Price: $1.20 Not intended as comprehensive statistical study of baseball. Rather, its goal is to teach a few... |  Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball?Best Price: $1.49 A sometimes interesting book in where Kalb tries to rank players, which is always an argument... |  Chicago Cubs Trivia TeasersBest Price: $10.43 I bought this as a Christmas gift for my brother. The whole family enjoyed it. |
 Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster 2008 (Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster)Best Price: $12.99 Honestly the online service is far better (and has outpaced the book). While the book can be... |  Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball (Total Baseball)If you're a baseball stats junky (like me), how can this not be the perfect book? They decided... |  Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic FringeBest Price: $1.77 Sam Walker traces the origins of the game, profiles the super geeks who advise the rest of us,... |  Cincinnati and the Big Red MachineBest Price: $19.95 The book begins with an excellent demographic background of Cincinnati and the surrounding area... |  Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home RunsBest Price: $10.85 Michael Schell is a professor of statistics at the University of North Carolina. I find that we... |
 Minor League Baseball Analyst 2008Best Price: $19.94 Good source for the serious baseball fan who may want a more analytical review of their favorite... |  Baseball Autograph Collectors HandbookJack does a great job of producing the addresses of players. Just that simple. If you want to... |  The Baseball Fan's Companion: How to Master the Subtleties of the World's Most Complex Team Sport and Learn to Watch the Game Like an ExpertBest Price: $36.97 OK, I've got good news and bad news for ya. THE BAD NEWS: I read Nick Bakalar's book, 'THE... |  The Fielding BibleBest Price: $11.25 I endorse any book that demonstrates how bad a fielder Derek Jeter is. You have actual writers... |  Too Much Time on His Hands: The Unauthorized Ultimate Statistical Guide of the World Champion Boston Red SoxBest Price: $11.61 "Too Much Time on His Hands" ia a masterful piece of work by Scott Russell, a... |
 Baseball Register 2007: Complete Guide to Major League Players & Prospects (Baseball Register)Best Price: $22.95 This is still an okay book on baseball, but it is not the great book it once was. Where before... |  Baseball America 2007 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)Best Price: $3.39 I don't know that anyone can do this type of thing better short of dedicating 5-6 pages per... |  Wrigley Field's Last World Series: The Wartime Chicago Cubs and the Pennant of 1945Best Price: $11.44 Despite unmatched failure following World War II, the Chicago Cubs were one of the premiere... |  Baseball's All-Star Game Reference Guide 1933-2007: 78 Games in 74 YearsBest Price: $29.18 This is a great book for all who want all the stats on the annual All-Star game. You can almost... |  The Hardball Times Season PreviewBest Price: $10.98 I bought this book to read a few team summaries, but mostly to read in-depth analysis for... |
 Baseball by the Numbers: How Statistics Are Collected, What They Mean, and How They Reveal the GameBest Price: $35.00 Perhaps no other sport in the world relies as heavily on the use of statistics as does baseball.... |  The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of BaseballBest Price: $4.94 I really like it. It's more historical and nostalgic than a practical guide. It's also a lot... |  Beckett Baseball Card Price GuideBest Price: $20.89 I collected baseball cards in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a kid, mostly Topps. I... |  Leveling the Field: An Encyclopedia of Baseball's All-Time Great Performances as Revealed Through Scientifically Adjusted StatisticsBest Price: $3.63 Although this book has some obvious and well-documented flaws, it is the first system created... |  The Baseball Rookies EncyclopediaBest Price: $4.22 There is a tremendous amount of data included in this excellent book. It includes information... |
 The Act of Pitching: A Tutorial for All Levels by a Master Technician-Detailing Every Aspect of PitchingI read positive reviews of this book so I bought it. The beginning is really wordy and I skipped... |  Runs, Hits, and an Era: The Pacific Coast League, 1903-58It would have been better if the author had checked out the Sacramento Bee archives and been... | |||
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