Posted by Mwett on 6/9/2020 8:25:00 PM (view original):
The MVP Machine. Data to build a better ballplayer. Thanx Statcast. Driveline origins and the anti-baseball Trevor Bauer. 12-year old Club is just the beginning, and everyone's gaining on you.

I pimped this here when I first found WIS when taking a break from Scoresheet's unsatisfactory version of fake 2020 MLB, and it's been retweeted here at least a couple times, and plan a reread Jan 1 late morn/early aft, headache notwithstanding, and thought it worthy of a bump.

But what brought me back to topic was a Christmas gift read : a +500 page biography of Willie Mays 'The Life The Legend'. In the first 50 pages, I learned more about him than I thought I'd already previously known. After 200 pages, I realized I really never knew him at all. Brilliant tidbits from this first of its kind authorized by Mays accounts of never before offered personal info or previously offered only in bits and pieces.

Any other suggestions of good baseball reads from the past couple years while I figure out if Scoresheet is worthy of a real but still fake 2021 MLB season rerun ? Real MLB is top dog to anything fake errrmm I mean not too disrespectfully fantasy, and living across the street from Coors and nearby fave drinking holes killed me last year, and not looking forward to a repeat.

Posted by bronxcheer on 12/27/2020 9:34:00 AM (view original):
My favorite Halberstam book:

I have this book. I havent read it yet, though.

Posted by bronxcheer on 1/12/2021 8:34:00 PM (view original):

I really enjoyed that one!

My wife and daughter were trying to figure out what to get me for Christmas and my daughter came across Obama's new book, "A Promised Land".

It is not something I would have jumped at reading - I voted for him twice, the first time enthusiastically, and god does he seem a lot better now given, well, you know, than he seemed to me then. My disappointment at how little he did (yes some good things, but given the stakes, given what was possible..not that much) overrules most of how I see those years now. He got in with a huge majority in both houses of Congress, the country in ruins, wars, economic wreckage, the previous administration leaving in disgrace (even that seems relative now doesn't it?), and did...a couple of okay things. About one-tenth of what FDR did in 100 days.

That said, the man can write. The book is compelling, interesting and a lively read. But this is how I read every page, and it is a loooong *** book:

Page after page I read what he writes, interested but thinking "just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", ", ""just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", ", ""just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", "", "just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", ".

And every page he doesn't do it.

And ....spoilers for Obama.....I know how it ends, we get Trump 'cause he didn't listen to me.

Currently about 60% of the way through



I'm as absorbed by a work of fiction as I have been in some time. At the point though where it might go off the rails so ...we'll see Definitely a bunch of it resonates with me given the amount of time I've spent wandering around Pacific Northwest forests

If I Never Get Back:
by Darryl Brock
I read this story a while ago about a man who goes back in time to 1869 and gets to play with the Cincinnati Reds. Great descriptions of the times and an interesting plot. It is a fun read, especially for a baseball fan.

Posted by italyprof on 1/13/2021 6:05:00 PM (view original):
My wife and daughter were trying to figure out what to get me for Christmas and my daughter came across Obama's new book, "A Promised Land".

It is not something I would have jumped at reading - I voted for him twice, the first time enthusiastically, and god does he seem a lot better now given, well, you know, than he seemed to me then. My disappointment at how little he did (yes some good things, but given the stakes, given what was possible..not that much) overrules most of how I see those years now. He got in with a huge majority in both houses of Congress, the country in ruins, wars, economic wreckage, the previous administration leaving in disgrace (even that seems relative now doesn't it?), and did...a couple of okay things. About one-tenth of what FDR did in 100 days.

That said, the man can write. The book is compelling, interesting and a lively read. But this is how I read every page, and it is a loooong *** book:

Page after page I read what he writes, interested but thinking "just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", ", ""just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", ", ""just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", "", "just nationalize the banks, save everyone's home and create full employment with a new New Deal", ".

And every page he doesn't do it.

And ....spoilers for Obama.....I know how it ends, we get Trump 'cause he didn't listen to me.

Currently reading through this as well.

I agree with your assessment of hi writing, he's phenomenal and I can't seem to put the book down.

I used to read a lot of sports books, fiction and non-fiction, but these days I spend most of my reading time in faith-based leadership books.