false 56814 1 1 The Chemistry Set, and is the creator of the comic series STYX TAXI and co-writer of the political graphic novel EVERYMAN: BE THE PEOPLE. He has also contributed to anthologies such as the forthcoming POSTCARDS: CALIFORNIA DREAMING.]]> male 1976/07/05 331065 98757 0452288258 9780452288256 4 <![CDATA[Baseball Prospectus 2007: The Essential Guide to the 2007 Baseball Season]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171427462m/98757.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171427462s/98757.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98757.Baseball_Prospectus_2007_The_Essential_Guide_to_the_2007_Baseball_Season 4.41 58 The 2007 edition of the most authoritative guide to professional baseball

America's favorite pastime has never been more popular and, for over a decade, Baseball Prospectus has been the ultimate guide to the game for fantasy players, professionals, and casual fans alike. Baseball Prospectus 2007 continues that tradition, bringing together the top young baseball writers and analysts in the business to provide a definitive look at the season to come. Featuring humorous and incisive essays on all thirty teams and an in-depth look at every major league player and all the top prospects, Baseball Prospectus 2007 offers the cutting-edge analysis that has inspired nearly every major league team to seek the advice of current or former Prospectus writers. Also included are projections of player stats for next year, as determined by the groundbreaking PECOTA system, which Sports Illustrated has called “perhaps the game's most accurate projection model.” The most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind, Baseball Prospectus 2007 is as essential to the baseball- watching experience as hot dogs and cold beer.

]]> 56814 4.28 108 20 2007 5299986 0452290112 9780452290112 15 <![CDATA[Baseball Prospectus 2009: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5299986.Baseball_Prospectus_2009_The_Essential_Guide_to_the_2009_Baseball_Season 4.20 40 The 2009 edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to major league baseball that is simply “the best book of its kind” (Rob Neyer)

Now in its fourteenth edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual is the industry leader among annual baseball guides and the rightful successor to Bill James’s legendary bestselling Baseball Abstracts. The 2009 edition contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams. Each player’s statistics are projected for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, called “perhaps the game’s most accurate projection model” (Sports Illustrated). Baseball Prospectus 2009 also contains cutting-edge essays on performance analysis, the likes of which have inspired twenty-nine of the thirty major league teams to hire current and former Baseball Prospectus writers and analysts as consultants. The baseball bible for fantasy players and devoted fans, Baseball Prospectus can be relied upon to once again hit it out of the park.]]> 56814 4.28 108 20 907858 4.34 95 20 2009 533871 0975915207 9780975915202 0 <![CDATA[Everyman: Be the People]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175599384m/533871.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175599384s/533871.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/533871.Everyman_Be_the_People 4.00 7 56814 4.28 108 20 286831 4.00 7 0 295003 3.52 180 48 2004 586482 1574888749 9781574888744 0 <![CDATA[Forging Genius: The Making of Casey Stengel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176047600m/586482.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176047600s/586482.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/586482.Forging_Genius_The_Making_of_Casey_Stengel 3.00 2
How did he know? Goldman refutes claims that anyone could have won with the Yankees. Casey knew how to win because of the years of struggle and ignominy, because he’d learned how to manage by running two of the game’s worst sad-sack franchises, because he had learned through failure. To understand Stengel’s formative years, Goldman retraces Stengel’s baseball education in playing for the great John McGraw, from whom he also learned that success permits no room for nostalgia. Goldman follows Stengel through his years with the Dodgers and Braves, his return to the minors, a spat with Bill Veeck, and his success as a businessman away from the diamond.

Forging Genius gives insights to Stengel’s irrepressible love of the game and his incorrigible desire to entertain. As Casey put it, “Because I can make people laugh, some of them think I’m a damn fool.” His humor camouflaged a relentless hunger for success, glory, and the respectability he desperately sought. Goldman gives readers an unprecedented vision of one man’s lifelong pursuit of genius on the baseball diamond.]]> 56814 4.28 108 20 2005 7134912 0641945922 9780641945922 0 <![CDATA[It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7134912-it-ain-t-over-til-it-s-over 0.0 0 56814 4.28 108 20 2007