| Moneyball
| “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 g...More
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| The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study on Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long Term Health
| The China Study offers conclusive evidence that a change of diet can dramatically reduce the risks of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. The book is based on the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted, a 20-year joint project between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The study surveyed the eating habits of 6,500 adults from all over China and Taiwan and found a direct correlation between diet and disease. Author T. Coli...More
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| Broken Laces
| Everyone deserves a second chance.Jack "The Cannon" Kennedy thinks he's living the American Dream. A fancy house in the Houston suburbs. A promising career. And a loving wife who tolerates his long hours and selfish ways. In one horrific instant, he loses his wife. Then his job. Then his hope. And that just leaves Kellen, the young son Jack hardly knows or understands.Jack realizes he must reconnect with Kellen or they'll never get past their shared grief. But Jack's biggest obstacle is staring ...More
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| Baseball Prospectus 2012
| 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 ea...More
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| Baseball America 2012 Prospect Handbook: The 2012 Expert Guide to Baseball Prospects and MLB Organization Rankings (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)
| 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 ...More
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| Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back
| Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, estrangement from friends and family, and his eventual suspension from baseball. BEYOND BELIEF details the events that led up to the derailment. Josh ...More
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| 2012 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster)
| 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 m...More
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| The Natural
| 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 i...More
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| The Bill James Handbook 2012
| 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 M...More
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| The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
| 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 ...More
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| A Day at the Ballpark, and Other Stories (Harvard Perspectives in Fiction)
| Seldom does a thin little first book of fiction provide so much reward while fueling such great anticipation. Steve Holt's short stories illuminate the struggles of men and boys to face and to cope with depression, abandonment, and deceit. With spare language and a sure narrative touch reminiscent of Richard Ford's stories, his navigation of the timeless and sometimes self-destructive preoccupations of his male characters evokes power, pathos, and rich humor. Against the backdrop of these coming...More
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| Mr. Base Man
| Billy Wold is only moments away from winning the biggest game in his school's history, when his dream is crushed by the best player in the state. Humiliated, Billy vows never to play baseball again. However when he's hired to pitch batting practice for a Major League Baseball team, he regains his passion for the game. Billy then falls in love with the owner's daughter and his life couldn't be better, until he discovers that the same player who destroyed his chance of winning the most important g...More
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| The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran
| "After many minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years spent in the bullpen, I can verify that this is a true picture of baseball."--Tim McCarver "There are great truths within, of the kind usually unspoken. And as he expresses them, Dirk Hayhurst describes himself as 'a real person who moonlights as a baseball player.' In much the same manner, while The Bullpen Gospels chronicles how all of us face the impact when we learn reality is both far meaner and far richer than our dreams-...More
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| The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance
| 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 shou...More
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| Out of My League
| "Dirk Hayhurst writes about baseball in a unique way. Observant, insightful, human, and hilarious." --Bob Costas- "Even more than he did in The Bullpen Gospels, Dirk Hayhurst teaches us here what happens when a 'dream career' collides with reality. There is such universality in his struggles, that if by the book's end you don't become him in your mind, there's probably something wrong with your heart. This book shows why baseball is so often used as a metaphor for life." --Ke...More
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| The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
| What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from d...More
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| 2012 Minor League Baseball Analyst
| The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2012 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more than 1,000 minor league baseball players. A one of a kind analysis, this resource is ideally suited for baseball analysts and those who play in fantasy leagues with farm systems.
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| Statistics Laminate Reference Chart: Parameters, Variables, Intervals, Proportions (Quickstudy: Academic )
| 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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| Shoeless Joe
| One day while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears the voice of a baseball announcer saying, If you build it, he will come. He refers to Ray's hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. It is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.
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| Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
| This is the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game of baseball. In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The 1970s saw a revolution in baseball statistics, and it's a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over wit...More
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