Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for Winning

by Steve Goldman, Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts
Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for Winning
published
September 19th 2005 by Workman Publishing Company
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Paperback, 320 pages

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0761140182   (isbn13: 9780761140184)

description
Think You Know Baseball? Think Again.

The Red Sox finally won a World Series, in a triumph of unconventional wisdom. They rethought the bat...more





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Let's be honest - I'll read any book that mentions Kevin Youkilis, my baseball husband. Unlike me, the authors control themselves admirably when it comes to Youk - but they're very, very excited by large tables of statistics. Yeah, statistics. They usually explain the meaning of the large groups of numbers, which means that it's safe to ignore the actual numbers and just read about why they're relevant.

Nothing earthshaking, but an interesting read, and they have a great sense of humor. (f...more
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