Watching Baseball Smarter
A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks

Here’s the deal: This book is like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. For some of you it will be too technical; for others, it will not tell you anything that you didn’t already know. I can’t predict if you will like it. I liked it a lot. I really appreciate how Hample (a master of baseball stats) didn’t......more

This book meanders through the world of baseball, dropping short anecdotes, statistics, opinions, and other items meant to make you say 'Gee whiz, I didn't know that". This is told with a light touch, mildly humorous throughout. It seems quite similar to a book on baseball I previously read that had......more

This book says that it is aimed at people who know enough about baseball to know what a line-drive is, but not enough to know much more than that, and it pretty much delivers exactly what it claims. I enjoyed reading it - it was fast, full of fun little tid-bits and asides, and as a neophite basebal......more

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The subtitle of this well crafted work: "A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks." For the first two categories, right on! Geeks are not going to learn a whole lot that they already do not know. That aside, though, this is a nice work. Examples of what is in......more