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mitchkenn · 09-27-2021, 08:22 PM

being cooped up for over a year plus with this Covid-world we find ourselves in, i finally have gotten around to reading a few of the baseball books i'd bought overthe last 4 or 5 years but hadn't gotten around to reading yet. One was about modern baseball stadiums built after Camden Yards. (can't recall the title or author right now and i loaned the book to an older Gentleman who was in the waiting room of a doctors office at the same time i was finishing it and he commented it looked quite interesting. Since i'd finished it, i offered it to him and gave him my address asking only he return it whenever he finished it.) Really interesting read - from a city, design and historical point of view.

Then i finally decided i had to read Moneyball. It's been on my shelf for 3 years or so. i thought i knew the story well enough (no, i haven't seen the movie.) it was a great read. The amazing thing to me was how much opposition to the ideas the owners, press and GMs of baseball had to the ideas. I really expected the book to glorify Billy Bean and it was pretty much nowhere near that.

Anyway, it's the best baseball book i've read in the past couple of years. If you've missed it and want to see the beginnings of saber-metrics unfold, i recommend it highly. It's one i'll likely read again in a few years.

09-27-2021, 08:22 PM	#1
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,872	Moneyball - finally being cooped up for over a year plus with this Covid-world we find ourselves in, i finally have gotten around to reading a few of the baseball books i'd bought overthe last 4 or 5 years but hadn't gotten around to reading yet. One was about modern baseball stadiums built after Camden Yards. (can't recall the title or author right now and i loaned the book to an older Gentleman who was in the waiting room of a doctors office at the same time i was finishing it and he commented it looked quite interesting. Since i'd finished it, i offered it to him and gave him my address asking only he return it whenever he finished it.) Really interesting read - from a city, design and historical point of view. Then i finally decided i had to read Moneyball. It's been on my shelf for 3 years or so. i thought i knew the story well enough (no, i haven't seen the movie.) it was a great read. The amazing thing to me was how much opposition to the ideas the owners, press and GMs of baseball had to the ideas. I really expected the book to glorify Billy Bean and it was pretty much nowhere near that. Anyway, it's the best baseball book i've read in the past couple of years. If you've missed it and want to see the beginnings of saber-metrics unfold, i recommend it highly. It's one i'll likely read again in a few years. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.