Buy The Book
I loved the one from 1986/88. You can buy it real cheap (there’s also a link to the hardcover version at the bottom, and it’s also real cheap). His HOF book is also cheap, and I recommend it highly. There’s also alot of cheap version of his annual abstracts. Really, for you guys who never read them, do yourself a favor and grab one. Or at least go to the library.
Amazon has the HoF book for 2 bones used, I’ve also found quite a few of those later Abstracts for under 5 bones. A lot of the old BP Annuals can also be found for less then a bone, even for pennies.
I have the Baseball Abstracts from the Ballantine era (1982-88), but I was wondering where I could find the pre-Ballantine publications (from, I think, 1978-81). Any help?
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Reader Mail of the Day: Why do we need X years of fielding data? And what about outliers?
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Who is Jeremy Lin?
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New PECOTA
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Whitney Houston
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Psst… wanna intern in Canada?
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Clutch analogy
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Fighting leads to goals?
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Why do players get crappy caps?
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Hero of the month: Brittney Baxter
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MGL: Today on Clubhouse Confidential
That triggered a memory. The book came out on Christmas Day, 1986 for some reason. This was my first Christmas as a father and we were picking up my parents at the airport that day, but I was really ticked I couldn’t rush off to Tower Books (which was open Christmas Day) and get my copy the first day it came out.
And the book repaid every bit of nervous energy I expended, too. Though anytime someone says they’ve discovered the “truth” about sabermetrics, please read Mr. James’s rankings in the book.