Slightly Better than Replacement Level
James Creighton is a fascinating figure in baseball history. Death in the Strike Zone: The Mystery of America’s First Baseball Hero is a fascinating book, though it’s not quite the biography that it purports to be. Thomas W. Gilbert has woven an eminently fascinating tale. I breezed through it in a few days and enjoyed […]
Marc Carig – The Athletic ($): Super teams don’t come along all that often. Having an Under-18 Unites States National Team full of not just major leaguers, but two of the best to ever play the game, well, that’s even rarer. The 2009 U-18 US team was something to behold, and hearing how they ran […]