A Baseball Winter: The Off-Season Life of the Summer Game

by Peter Pascarelli, Tim Tucker (Contributor), Terry Pluto (Contributor)

Five well-known sportswriters followed five teams during the 1984-85 off-season to report on contract negotiations, the pursuit of free agents, trade talks at the Winter Meetings, and how individual players and teams prepare for a new season

Genres: Baseball, Sports

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Brian]

This is a crisp, entertaining read that looks at a mid-1980s offseason in MLB. It's obviously a bit dated - all the players mentioned have long since retired and baseball's offseason has changed greatly (no free agent draft or a free agent compensation pool), but it offers an insight to this period in baseball history and relevance to how teams look at offseason team building.