THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

FYI I saw seven copies of The Book on display at the Chapters/Indigo superstore in downtown Toronto this afternoon. Pretty impressive—you don’t usually see seven copies unless they expect to sell them quickly.

That’s pretty cool.  I have actually never seen a copy of The Book on display anywhere…

In writing the review, it did strike me as unlikely that such careful analysts would be at fault for the editing errors - and it’s good to get that confirmed.

On the subject of bookshops, I was in one of the largest ones in my corner of Britain yesterday looking for baseball books. I noticed Mike Shropshire’s “Last Real Season”, picked it up to have a flick through, cast my eyes back to the shelf to see what other baseball books there were in stock, and then realized that I was actually holding the entire baseball section between my first and second fingers.

This happens a lot in Britain. Still, the relatively small number of people who take the game seriously here take it seriously with a passion - and books like “The Book” help us to do this. So thank you.

Finally got my copy of The Book - got a call from Borders on my break. Haven’t had a chance to do much more than skim the Toolshed and the Appendix yet.