Slightly Better than Replacement Level
On the whole, I really enjoyed Jules Tygiel’s effort. The concept is one that is right up my alley, and for the most part, it had me hooked from the get-go. There are times when it faltered and when Tygiel succumbed to classical tropes instead of actual investigations of history. Those moments were decidedly in […]
I don’t like to start my reviews too negative, but that’s really hard this time around, The Best Team Money Can Buy is that bad of an offering. When I turned the final page I was left with the overriding thought that I didn’t have a single positive morsel to offer about Molly Knight’s tome […]
The Negro Leagues Are Major Leagues is an interesting concept. The title came on the heels of Major League Baseball’s decision to declare the Negro Leagues were major leagues. I’m not going to use this review to litigate that announcement, I’ve done that plenty on this site already. Regardless, a collection of essays discussing the […]
2007 wasn’t that long ago, only 17 years if my math is mathing correctly. Yet, Black Baseball Out of Season feels so much older than that. Most of that comes down to the writing style employed by the author, William F. McNeil. In that sense, I have no complaints and anyone who is a student […]
It’s ironic that someone who spends a good deal of his time writing from a sabermetrics point of view hadn’t read Moneyball until today, but I am who I am I suppose. My lack of modern baseball culture aside, I was interested in Moneyball. However, as the pages went by I became more interested, only […]