Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570973
EAN num: 9780679735304
ISBN number: 0679735305
Label: Villard
Manufacturer: Villard
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 391
Printing Date: March 13, 1991
Publishing house: Villard
Release Date: March 13, 1991
Sale Popularity Level: 1933277
Studio: Villard
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An updated baseball reference analyzes each team, makes projections for the 1992 season, and features unconventional player profiles, incisive biographies of former greats, and accurate accessible statistics. 85,000 very first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Few baseball writers have Bill James' stellar combination of readability and analysis. James devotes a section to each of baseball's then-26 teams for the upcoming 1992 season, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses both on and off the field. He ranks players by position, and posts meaningful stats such as on-base, slugging, and offensive winning percentage. Included in these pages is biographical information, and dozens of illuminating anecdotes including one about Roger Clemens and another on whether Atlanta or LA faced tougher pitching down the stretch in 1991. I particularly liked James' fictional discusion with a U.S. Senator on ticket prices, scalping, and over-priced hot dogs. As always, James is readable and illuminating, respectful of the game, yet properly skeptical of big-money owners and their lame cries of poverty.
This was the last of James' three BASEBALL BOOK annuals from 1990-1992, a series many wished he'd continued. This one has a somewhat different format than its two predecessors, but each remains excellent reading even today.
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Even today, it's well worth getting this book. The best part is his utter dismantling of Summer of 1949, David Halberstam's bestseller. James points out at least 7 separate foolish statements or flat-out untruths halberstam makes. James also reviews all the players in the league and makes his normal excellent analysis. He has a great essay on the failures of psychology in the Gary Sheffield analysis. Definitely a classic.
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