Extra Innings More Baseball Between the Numbers From the Team at Baseball Prospectus

Goldman, Steven (ed)

ISBN 10: 0465024033 / ISBN 13: 9780465024032

Published by Basic Books, New York, 2012

About this Item

First printing, hardcover, 446 pp. A tight fine copy with clean text in a near fine dust jacket (just a touch of edge wear). Now protected in an archival cover. No remainder marks.

Seller Inventory # 5780

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extra Innings 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 Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sports

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.