Looking at the Game of Baseball from all ends of the Spectrum
Here’s quick plug for a contest at one of my favorite minor league blogs, Bus Leagues Baseball. They’re giving away a copy of Joe Posanski’s “The Machine”.
The rules of the contest are stated simple enough in the post so saunter on over there and take a stab at winning a copy.
The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is giving away their pdf version of Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009. Here is the link to SABR’s download page.
From SABR’s website:
Edited by accomplished and acclaimed baseball historians Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer and published by SABR, The Emerald Guide distills the 2008 season down to 586 fact-filled pages that contain the pitching, fielding, and hitting statistics for every player active in the major and minor leagues in 2008.
The print version is also available from Lulu for $23.94 if you absolutely must have a hard copy.
I took a quick gander at the pdf and it pretty much delivers as promises. If you don’t mind giving SABR your email address, take advantage of this.
Alyssa Milano is cashing in on her peripheral connection to baseball releasing a book she has written on the game we love. Apparently she loves it too… at least a few of players that play it.
The book, “Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic,”, details Milano’s “lifelong obsession with baseball, revealing what the game has meant to her” etc etc.
Joe Torre has given his tacit approval by writing the foreword. The least he could have done is let her write the foreword for his. Fair is fair.
And no, I’m not going to link to it. If you really want it, you can google it.