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A Trip to the Library

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

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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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not the biggest fan of biographies. Far too often, I find them lacking in actual content and bereft of the compelling moments that made up the subjects’ lives. Not that biographies don’t cover those moments, mind you. Rather, it’s that I’ve found it to be the case, especially […]

Posted on July 30, 2021July 28, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Hall of Name

It took me a long time to make my way through D.B. Firstman’s Hall of Name. Some of that was on me, I procured a copy just as I was in the middle of reading a mammoth critical care textbook in preparation for a soon to be COVID canceled CCEMT-P class. By the time I […]

Posted on November 19, 2020November 15, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Power Ball

Power Ball was a Christmas pick up for me, one of a handful of books that I bought with bonus Amazon money from work. I picked it up on the strength of lots of positive reviews, and yet it sat on my bookshelf for many months and I found myself constantly passing it over to […]

Posted on July 12, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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