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| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Curious Case of Freddie Lindstrom | Jay Jaffe | 2013-03-06 |
| Wezen-Ball: Joe Engel Trades for a Turkey | Larry Granillo | 2012-11-20 |
| Baseball ProGUESTus: A Salute to Small Sample Size | Chad Finn | 2012-05-22 |
| Wezen-Ball: Fenway Illustrated, circa 1946 | Larry Granillo | 2012-04-13 |
 | Prospectus Hit and Run: The Hate List, Part I | Jay Jaffe | 2012-04-13 |
| Western Front: They Slugged Like Ed Brinkman | Geoff Young | 2012-03-20 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Stuck in the Middle with You | Jay Jaffe | 2011-07-25 |
| The BP Broadside: The Annotated WARP Leaders II: Did Ernie Banks Write the Book of Love? | Steven Goldman | 2011-05-25 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Class of 2011: No Shortage of Quality Shortstops | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-29 |
| Prospectus Perspective: Baseball and Christmas Loot | Christina Kahrl | 2010-12-27 |
| Prospectus Q&A: On Trammell and Whitaker | David Laurila | 2010-08-13 |
| You Can Blog It Up: DPOTD: Pinky Higgins, Sick Bastard | Steven Goldman | 2010-05-27 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Nomar and the Trinity | Jay Jaffe | 2010-03-12 |
| You Could Look It Up: Enhanced? | Steven Goldman | 2010-01-18 |
| On the Beat: Sunday Summary | John Perrotto | 2009-06-07 |
| Every Given Sunday: Moving Forward to Rewind | John Perrotto | 2008-08-31 |
| Prospectus Preview: Monday's Games to Watch | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-08-11 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: The Best Player in Baseball, Part One | Nate Silver | 2007-09-20 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Elmer Flick in All of Us | Steven Goldman | 2007-09-17 |
| The Class of 2007: The Hitters, Part One | Jay Jaffe | 2006-12-13 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: A Kid (finally) Bids Fenway Hello | Dan Fox | 2006-06-14 |
| Prospectus Matchups: January Is the Cruelest Month | Jim Baker | 2006-01-17 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Claiming the Flag | Jim Baker | 2005-06-10 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: A Hall of Famer | Nate Silver | 2004-09-29 |
| Prospectus Triple Play: Cleveland Indians, Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners | Baseball Prospectus | 2004-08-12 |
| You Could Look It Up: Gamesmanship, Dammit | Steven Goldman | 2004-06-02 |
| You Could Look It Up: Problems in Red Sox Management: A Tourist's Guide | Steven Goldman | 2004-02-27 |
| Why Great Offenses Often Don't Win: An Anecdotal Journey through the Valley of Despair | Steven Goldman | 2003-09-16 |
| "This is Our Fault": The McClatchy Ownership as Team Builder, Part III | Steven Goldman | 2003-08-27 |
| Damned Yankees: Past Efforts to Level the Playing Field | Mark Armour | 2003-08-11 |
| Cross Your Fingers: Cautionary Tales From the Second Base Trade Logs, Part I | Steven Goldman | 2003-07-18 |
BP Chats
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| 2010-08-02 13:30:00 | Interesting, but can we have a recommendation for a non-fiction book (or several)?
(Michael from Detroit, MI) | I'm really enjoying Blom's The Vertigo Years, if you want to talk about the impact changes in media and technology made on civilization a century ago, and how it created a pervasive sense of hysteria. For baseball non-fiction, I'm enjoying Emma Span's 90% of the Game is Half-Mental and Mark Armour's superb biography of Joe Cronin. (Christina Kahrl) |
| 2010-03-17 14:00:00 | I polished off the annual on the first leg of a cross country flight (fantastic read, by the way). Any book recommendations for the return trip?
(Bill from LA) | Happy to hear it, Bill. For baseball, Posnanski's The Machine just came up, and would be worth it. I very much want to read Mark Armour's biography of Joe Cronin; Mark's an outstanding writer and a thoughtful baseball historian, so it'll be interesting to see how he deals with Cronin. For non-baseball, I'd pick up one of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther mysteries; start with the Berlin Noir trilogy if you haven't read any of them. For science fiction, Ursula le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness is a personal favorite, but Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain stories are wonderful; you might also want to check out Richard K. Morgan or Charles Stross. I recently finished Game Change, which was fun, if not especially deep; if you're more historically minded as far as political commentary, I'd pick up some H.L. Mencken. For a history of thought and literature, I'm very fond of Christopher Hitchens' Unacknowledged Legislation. (Christina Kahrl) |
| 2008-03-14 13:00:00 | Steven I'm a big fan of your "you could look it up" series on BP. I'm getting the chance to meet Dominic DiMaggio next week, and have been researching some fun things from his career to talk about. I want to get into current players, and my question regards the comparison of DD to Ichiro: is this a good comp? It strikes me that both were excellent defensive outfielders, and although Ichiro's production volume on offense is greater they're both consistent hitters who sustained peak performance after age 30. Do you buy that?
(cjenks from SF) | The Little Professor was more selective at the plate than Ichiro, so I suppose you're in the same ballpark, but we're not quite talking the same model here. I'm also willing to bet that DiMaggio got lots, lots, lots of inflationary help from Fenway, and that in the same ballpark Ichiro is probably the far better player... I'd love to have you ask DiMaggio about working for Tom Yawkey, about the personalities of Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx - all of whom he played with in the early days, of Joe McCarthy, if he believes, as Birdie Tebbets alleged, that McCarthy went with Denny Galehouse in the 1948 playoff because the other starters said "pass." Man, I'm jealous. (Steven Goldman) |
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