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  • Swing Kings

    The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution

    by Jared Diamond ...
    "The best baseball book I’ve read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball ProspectusFrom the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arm

    Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

    by Jeff Passan ...
    Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors.Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the game’s lifeblood. Their ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

    by Michael Lewis ...
    "One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—ForbesMoneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sports Analytics

    A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers

    Benjamin C. Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at the University of San Francisco and has published numerous cutting-edge studies on strategy and player evaluation. Today, he cochairs the sports statistics section of the International Statistics Institute ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Baseball Prospectus 2019

    The 2019 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.PLAY BALL! The 24th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several statistics that were created by, and are exclusive to, Baseball Prospectus, and an expanded focus on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summary of Moneyball

    by Michael Lewis | Includes Analysis

    Summary of Moneyball by Michael Lewis | Includes AnalysisPreview:Moneyball by Michael Lewis considers the unlikely success of the Oakland Athletics in the first few years of the twenty-first century. During this period, one of the teams with the lowest payrolls in Major League Baseball (MLB) consistently managed to make the playoffs and set an American League (AL) record of 20 consecutive wins in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball Prospectus 2014

    The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business Now in its 19th edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: The 2014 edition includes key stat categories, more controversial player predictions, and the kind of wise, witty baseball commentary that makes this phone-book-thick tome worth reading cover to cover. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 51 Questions for the Diehard Fan: Boston Red Sox

    by Ryder Edwards ...
    Test your knowledge with these hardball questions about your favorite team—all the sluggers, hurlers, and greatest moments in Boston Red Sox history … 51 questions to challenge the diehard Red Sox fan. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 51 Questions for the Diehard Fan: Atlanta Braves

    by Ryder Edwards ...
    Test your knowledge with these hardball questions about your favorite team—all the sluggers, hurlers, and greatest moments in Atlanta Braves history … 51 questions to challenge the diehard Braves fan. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wizardry:Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one problem has defied solution: estimating runs saved by fielders throughout history. Traditional statistics ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Damn Near Perfect Game

    Reclaiming America’s Pastime 

    by Joe Kelly ...
    Baseball’s most outspoken fireballer brings the high heat—calling out the hacks, cheats, and ridiculous rules that have tarnished the game—and pitches a-plus stuff on how to make baseball pure, fun, and damn near perfect.Baseball has an image problem. The chorus of nonbelievers gets louder every year, and the Major Leagues have made an art of tuning them out. Enter Joe Kelly: a walking, talking, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Baseball Prospectus 2020

    The 2020 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.PLAY BALL! The 25th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several statistics that were created by, and are exclusive to, Baseball Prospectus, and an expanded focus on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hidden Game of Baseball

    The acclaimed classic on the statistical analysis of baseball records in order to evaluate players and win more games.Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he’d honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 20th Century Phillies by the Numbers: You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard

    by Ted Taylor ...
    Four years of labor-intensive research produced Ted’s 8th book. This 300+ page tome pays homage to Philadelphia’s oft-maligned, but always loved – Phillies. In 1915 the Phils won their first NL pennant (and they didn’t win many more). This book commemorates the 100th anniversary of that magnificent fete. In here you’ll find stuff you never suspected about guys who never knew even wore a Phillies ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball for the Utterly Confused

    by Ed Randall ...
    Play Ball!Everything baseball—from the popular Utterly Confused SeriesWhat's a foul ball?Or a swinging third strike?New fans, parents, and first-time coaches need no longer be Utterly Confused about baseball, as the popular series introduces the basics of the sport in a fun and easy-to-follow guide.Peppered with big league interviews and examples, Baseball for the Utterly Confused cuts through the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • State of Play

    The Old School Guide to New School Baseball

    by Bill Ripken ...
    Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case.America’s favorite pastime is enduring an assault of new thoughts and ideas. In recent years, the sabermetrics and analytics craze has infiltrated Major League Baseball—from its front offices to dugouts to clubhouses to media covering ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What's The Score: Baseball Scorekeeping in 10 Easy Chapters

    by S L Schell ...
    This book will teach you how to keep score at baseball games, whether you're a fan at the ball park, a player in a league, or a family member of a young ball player.With clear instructions and over 45 diagrams, the goal is to provide you with skills you can practice immediately, even after your first lesson. Three sections (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) enhance and build upon those skills.Lots ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Kansas City Royals 2019

    A Baseball Companion

    The team edition based on the The New York Times Bestselling Guide.This portable team edition of the full 24th edition of the industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player projections and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, but focused on your favorite organization. It also features detailed reports on top 10 prospects for the team, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fools Rush Inn

    More Detours on the Way to Conventional Wisdom

    by Bill James ...
    In this second collection of recent articles (the first was Solid Fool's Gold), groundbreaking sabermetrician and baseball historian Bill James takes his unique way of looking at the world and applies it to topics as diverse as the major league players who went out on top, whether ground ball pitchers are as good (or as bad) as people think, do hitters like Yasiel Puig have hot hand streaks (they ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sandlot Stats

    Learning Statistics with Baseball

    Sandlot Stats uses the national pastime to help students who love baseball learn—and enjoy—statistics.As Derek Jeter strolls toward the plate, the announcer tosses out a smattering of statistics—from hitting streaks to batting averages. But what do the numbers mean? And how can America’s favorite pastime be a model for learning about statistics? Sandlot Stats is an innovative textbook that ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Ron Shandler's 2021 Baseball Forecaster

    The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball Prospectus 2021

    The 2021 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.PLAY BALL! The 26th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several statistics that were created by, and are exclusive to, Baseball Prospectus, and an expanded focus on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 51 Questions for the Diehard Fan: San Francisco Giants

    by Ryder Edwards ...
    With a victory vs. San Diego on the final day of the 2010 regular season, the San Francisco Giants began an unlikely run that culminated with postseason glory. And in 2012, the Giants did something that very few teams—at any level, in any sport—prove capable of achieving: they validated the title won just two years earlier by winning the World Series again, for the second time in three years. The ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bill James Handbook 2017

    Bill James and the Baseball Info Solutions team of analysts continue to pack in new content, including a fresh look at the continued rise and effectiveness of The Shift and a new breakdown of home runs and long flyouts. And, as always, the book forecasts fresh hitter and pitcher projections for those looking to get an early jump on the next season. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus