Baseball Prospectus; More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus

GOLDMAN, Steven

ISBN 10: 0465024033 / ISBN 13: 9780465024032

Published by Basic Books, New York, 2012

About this Item

446pp. 8vo, 1/2 red cloth, d.w. New York: Basic Books, 2012. Fine.

Seller Inventory # 287779

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Baseball Prospectus; More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
• Publisher: Basic Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465024033
• ISBN 13: 9780465024032
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • BASEBALL

About this title

Synopsis

In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan.

In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers, they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Inningsis an essential volume for every baseball fan.

About the Author

Baseball Prospectus is the top statistical website in baseball and is extensively cited in print and on air by a wide range of broadcasters, magazines, and daily newspapers.