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A Trip to the Library

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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Black Baseball Out of Season

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 […]

Posted on December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

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 […]

Posted on October 16, 2024October 15, 2024 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library: Solid Fool’s Gold

Upon finishing Solid Fool’s Gold I had to check my bookshelf to see how many more Bill James books I had left to read. A few years back before I had gotten too deep into the more analytical side of baseball I had bought a handful of James books based on reputation alone. I haven’t […]

Posted on January 7, 2022January 3, 2022 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library: The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball

A common question in the medical field is, “should we do this?” What that means is that by taking all the evidence into account is it worth it to implement a certain strategy, conduct a research study, try to craft a new medicine, etc. This question is important, and it came to mind while reading […]

Posted on December 2, 2021December 1, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library: Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?

There comes a point when an author can overwhelm a book. I’m not talking about the author’s style or manner of prose, although both of those can be true. Rather, what I’m referring to in this case is when the personality of the author overwhelms whatever it is they are trying to write. In book […]

Posted on November 12, 2021November 5, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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