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Moneyball
Author: Michael Lewis
ISBN-10: 0393338398
ISBN-13: 9780393338393
Published: 2011-08-22
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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“You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy . . . and incisiveness of [Moneyball]. Lewis has hit another one out of the park.” —Janet Maslin, New York TimesBilly Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, is leading a revolution. Reinventing his team on a budget, he needs to outsmart the richer teams. He signs undervalued players whom the scouts consider flawed but who have a knack for getting on base, scoring runs, and winning games. Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball and a tale of the search for new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
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Baseball Prospectus 2012
Author: Baseball Prospectus
ISBN-10: 0470622075
ISBN-13: 9780470622070
Published: 2012-02-28
Publisher: Wiley
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The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the businessThe essential guide to the 2012 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you're a fan or fantasy player—or both—you won't be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2012 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team.Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teamsProjects each player's stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated)From Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseballNow in its seventeenth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind.
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Baseball America 2012 Prospect Handbook: The 2012 Expert Guide to Baseball Prospects and MLB Organization Rankings (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)
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ISBN-10: 1932391401
ISBN-13: 9781932391404
Published: 2012-02-21
Publisher: Baseball America
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Book Description:
The Baseball America 2012 Prospect Handbook is the leading annual reference guide to the next generation of rising stars. The Prospect Handbook profiles in-depth analysis and statistics of 900 players, provides a detailed amateur draft report card, a list of the top one hundred prospects, and a ranking of the Major League Baseball player development programs. The Prospect Handbook is the resource for information regarding the leading minor leaguers throughout baseball and is a valuable tool for fans, fantasy leaguers, and anyone who wants to know more about the player development process.
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2012 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster)
Author: Ron Shandler
ISBN-10: 1600785875
ISBN-13: 9781600785870
Published: 2011-12-20
Publisher: Triumph Books
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Book Description:
The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up a given batter’s ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, what happens when he makes contact and reverse engineer those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball skills and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.
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The Natural
Author: Bernard Malamud
ISBN-10: 0374502005
ISBN-13: 9780374502003
Published: 2003-07-07
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud’s first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted “natural” at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era—and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin’s comment still holds true: “Malamud has done something which—now that he has done it!—looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology.”
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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
Author: Jane Leavy
ISBN-10: 0060883537
ISBN-13: 9780060883539
Published: 2011-10-04
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Time Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, returns with a biography of an American original: number 7, Mickey Mantle. Meticulously reported and elegantly written, The Last Boy is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from the author’s weekend with the Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983 after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences from friends and family. It is the story of a boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League’s Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth’s home run crown in the summer of 1961—a boy who would never grow up. The Last Boy is an uncommon biography, with literary overtones—not only a portrait of an icon but also an investigation of memory itself.
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The Bill James Handbook 2012
Author: Bill James
ISBN-10: 0879464739
ISBN-13: 9780879464738
Published: 2011-11-01
Publisher: ACTA Publications
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Book Description:
The inspiration behind MONEYBALL?Let's put it this way. Every time in MLB now buys into sabermetrics to one degree or another. Maybe you've seen the movie MONEYBALL, maybe not. But you have observed the revolution in how baseball is thought about, prepared for, and played. It begins every year with The Bill James Handbook- the first, best, most complete annual baseball reference guide available. Full of exclusive stats, this edition is a comprehensive resource on every hit, pitch, and catch in Major League Baseball's 2011 season- and includes the first player projections for 2012. Key features this year include:- NEW! Pitch Repertoire Section detailing pitch type breakdowns for all pitchers in baseball-NEW! Rotation vs. Bullpen team charts showcasing the strengths and weaknesses of each team's pitching staff-ANNOUNCING! The 2011 Fielding Bible Awards-REVISED! Relief Pitcher Section-UPDATED! The Hall of Fame Monitor-PLUS! Pitcher Projections, Hitter Projections, Base-running Analysis, Manufactured Runs, Team Efficiency Summary, Park Indices, Manager Tendencies, Player Win-Shares, Career Targets, and career data for every 2011 major leaguer (and a few bonus players)
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Statistics Laminate Reference Chart: Parameters, Variables, Intervals, Proportions (Quickstudy: Academic )
Author: Inc. BarCharts
ISBN-10: 1572229446
ISBN-13: 9781572229440
Published: 2005-11-01
Publisher: Barcharts
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Book Description:
This guide is a perfect overview for the topics covered in introductory statistics courses. Topics covered include: - definitions&terms - measures of tendency&dispersion - standard error of the mean - confidence intervals&limits - samples&distributions - grouping of data - discrete&continuous variables - testing hypotheses - probabilities
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The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance
Author: H. A. Dorfman
ISBN-10: 1888698543
ISBN-13: 9781888698541
Published: 2002-05-16
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
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Book Description:
Without a doubt the classic guide to mental performance enhancement for baseball. Here in the third edition, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game. The theory and applications are illustrated by anecdotes and insights from major and minor league players, who at some point discovered the importance of mastering the inner game in order to play baseball as it should be played. Intended for players, managers, coaches, agents, and administrators as well as fans who want a more in-depth look at the makeup of the complete baseball player.
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