Monday, April 08, 2013
Book about Baseball Books
Ron Kaplan has compiled a list of 501 baseball books to read.? They are in alphabetical order, and in category order, which is a fine choice. If you are interested in "analysis", then you'll see a manageable list for you to make up your own mind as to the next one to try out. I put in my favorite books/authors to see if Kaplan had it. The first one that didn't make it was Heylar's Lords of the Realm, which is a behind-the-scenes history book. Kaplan DOES acknowledge the book as "excellent" in a passage of some other book, but he doesn't have it in his list of 501. He even had a niche book like Panas' Beyond Batting Average (which I'd recommend to anyone starting out in sabermetrics). He also put BPRo's Between the Numbers in the "statistics" section, which I think it should be in the "analysis" section. But, those are little things that are hard to agree upon when you go with single categories (though he does show "other categories").
(By the way, Amazon's Look Inside does show a hit for: Lords of the Realm, but it does not show a hit for: Heylar, even though those two key terms are one line apart. Weird.)
Anyway, I'd love to hear from your guys as to books that you liked, but Kaplan didn't show.
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