from Mantra

I Finally got time to read The Only Rule Is It Has To Work by Ben Lindbergh. Very interesting story of a couple of Baseball Prospectus alumni getting a chance to actually try what all the Sabermetricians talk about. They get approved to basically use Sabermetrics to populate the roster of a low i...

from lindapanzo

Think Moneyball for the minor leagues. The really, really low level minor leagues. The Sonoma Stompers to be exact. Think the ultimate fantasy league where a pair of sabermetrics geeks get to test out their ideas on a real live baseball team one summer. Of course, they encounter managers and othe...

from SamSattler

Baseball is the sport that most appeals to the dreamers among us, those who lack the talent to play the game at a high level but who have such a deeply felt love of the sport that we are willing to take just about any baseball related job that comes along. Until recently, such dreamers were limit...

from Stahl-Ricco

Disclaimer, I am a big fan of the San Rafael Pacifics, the "enemy" of the Sonoma Stompers, so I think I was pretty pumped to like this book, as I've been attending games since the league was founded! And I did like it! Lots of great behind the scenes information about how this team was run, and t...

from bostonian71

Entertaining and insightful. A slightly better subtitle might be "Our Attempt to Build ...", as much of the authors' book is about the various hurdles that get in the way of their quest. To their credit, Lindbergh and Miller are funny and candid about their own failings and don't just complain ab...