Blogs about: Bill James
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* Bits and pieces: Hot Stove edition
My apologies for falling way behind. Still basking in my post-Yankee fantasy camp experience, which you will be able to read about in the pages of the New Jersey Jewish News in the next week or so, as… more →
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
* Bits and pieces: Hot Stove edition
ronkaplan wrote 4 days ago: My apologies for falling way behind. Still basking in my post-Yankee fantasy camp experience, which … more →
The Ethics of Ignorance and Apathy: Gore's Million Degree Gaffe
Jack Marshall wrote 5 days ago: I didn’t watch Al Gore when he appeared on the Tonight Show a couple weeks ago. What he said then wh … more →
Who Belongs In the Hall of Fame? (Almost Anyone)
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William Miller wrote 1 week ago: Quick, tell me three things you know about Dave Bancroft. O.K., tell me two things you know about Da … more →
Math and Baseball, Part II
U. of Oklahoma Math Club wrote 1 week ago: Yesterday John Paul Cook talked in the Math Club about sabermetrics. For those who weren’t ab … more →
Monday Medley
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NPI wrote 2 weeks ago: What we read while hiding our golf clubs… Food is a big part of Thanksgiving. Which food that … more →
Neyer/James Book of Pitchers
maxpower51 wrote 3 weeks ago: Every Bill James book is a great bathroom book, but none is better than the Guide to Pitchers, a joi … more →
Baseball Ethics Here!
Jack Marshall wrote 4 weeks ago: Commercial: The 2010 Hardball Times Baseball Annual is hot off the presses, and it contains an artic … more →
Criticizing Sabermetrics in the Early '80s
Arne wrote 1 month ago: The following are two excerpts from journalism on sabermetrics in the early 1980s. I reprint them he … more →
Linkage: 2010 Bill James, Fielding Bible, Elias Free Agent rankings published
redsoxtalk wrote 1 month ago: The Bill James 2010 Handbook is out, and player projections have been included on the FanGraphs webs … more →
* Remembrances of magazines past
ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: Up on the roof…well, the attic actually. I was going through some stuff, trying to decide whet … more →
A Weekend At The New Yorker Festival
wiedemar wrote 1 month ago: My paying gig sent me to several events at The New Yorker festival this past weekend. I blogged abou … more →
Big Mike: Who Needs Runs?
glabwrites wrote 1 month ago: The cream of the Cubs farm system is a third baseman named Josh Vitters, the number three overall se … more →
Please, buy this for me. Immediately.
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pithoff wrote 1 month ago: This. Right here. I would really appreciate it if someone would buy that for me. Just look at it. Ev … more →
Huston We Have A Problem: Phillies Stun Rockies In Ninth
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Adam Bernacchio wrote 2 months ago: Anyone who has read the book Moneyball knows that one of the basic theories or principles of Billy B … more →
Cardinal Hero: A Tribute To Curt Flood
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Duane Graham wrote 2 months ago: Growing up a St. Louis Cardinals fan, Lou Brock was my hero—until George Brett and the Royals came a … more →
Bill James's 10 Commandments
theelephantseal wrote 2 months ago: aka The Giants Are Going To Hell. Especially with regard to #9. 1. Thou Shalt not Bunt. 2. Thou Shal … more →
Sabermetrics: A Dirty Word In The Royals Organization
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Adam Bernacchio wrote 2 months ago: Advanced statistics or “sabermetrics” such as FIP, WAR, OPS, BABIP, and UZR have become … more →
Book of the Month: Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?
sportsphd wrote 2 months ago: This is the first post in what will become a monthly feature. Each month I will briefly review a sp … more →
The Influence of Bill James
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sportsphd wrote 2 months ago: In 1994, Bill James published his influential book on the baseball Hall of Fame, The Politics of Glo … more →
