Bill James

The Top 25 Baseball Books for Your Desert Island

Jeff Polman | Posted 05.06.2012

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Jeff Polman

I thought this spring would be a fine time to take stock of my home archive and pluck out the top 25 baseball volumes I would like to have in a steamer trunk if my cruise ship to the Caribbean World Series ever runs into a hurricane and dumps me on a very remote, satellite dish-free atoll.

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Ron Dicker

How Jeremy Lin Proves Everything We Know About Investing Is Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.16.2012

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NBA teams overlooked Jeremy Lin for the same reason so-called experts first ignore stocks, business pioneers and anything else that defies expectation...

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Movie Review: Moneyball

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Billy Beane, Capote, Moneyball, Jonah Hill, Cleveland Indians, Oakland a's, Oscar, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Movies, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Brad Pitt, Oakland Athletics, Bill James, Art Howe, Aaron Sorkin, Sabermetrics, Jason Giambi, Bennett Miller, Jason Isringhausen, Moneyball Movie Review, Johnny Damon, Steve Zaillian, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Michael Lewis' book, Moneyball, was a sports thriller disguised as a nonfiction volume about statistics wonks. And Bennett Miller's film of Thomas' bo...

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Why Can We Develop Athletes And Not Writers?

Slate Magazine | Bill James | Posted 06.01.2011

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The population of Topeka, Kan., today is roughly the same as the population of London in the time of Shakespeare, and the population of Kansas now is ...

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The Philip Roth Reader: Both Of The Great American Pastimes

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill James, George Will, World Series, Books, The Philip Roth Reader, Chicago Cubs, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Roger Angell, The Inner Life, Books News
Karen Stabiner

Who are the great baseball writers? Roger Angell, Bill James, George Will (eing a lifetime Chicago Cubs fan has to count for something). Oh yeah -- and Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint.

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Don't Squander® That Opportunity

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Roger I. Abrams

My colleague has designed a new team statistic called "the squander®," the offensive team's statistical equivalent of a pitcher's "blown save."

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The Cliff Floyd Factor: Something Bill James Can't Measure

Dave Hollander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sports, New York Mets, Cliff Floyd, Tampa Bay Rays, Baseball, Florida Marlins, Bill James, Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Malcolm Gladwell, Entertainment News
Dave Hollander

Wherever Cliff Floyd goes, his teams win. Not only do they win, they turnaround. It's as if before Floyd got there not only weren't they winning but his teams appeared to have little idea how to win.

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