Book description
It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies - with real players, in a real ballpark, playing in real time. That's what Ben Lindbergh and Sam Millergotto do when the Sonoma Stompers, an independent minor league team in California,…
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Why read it?
2 authors picked The Only Rule Is It Has to Work as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love baseball books about underdogs, and there are no bigger underdogs than…every character in this book.
It’s the true story of when two data-driven baseball writers got to put their claims of superiority to the test by running an independent league baseball team for a season. Their players are a motley crew of cast-offs with only a faint hope of ever making the majors. But hope is all you need in the world of baseball.
The book chronicles one season in the lives of these players and front-office executives with humor, grit, and more than a little romanticism. As…
From Noah's list on books that tell the true story of baseball.
Anyone who watches baseball and studies the game even a little bit thinks he or she knows more than the people who run teams.
Lindbergh and Miller actually got the opportunity to run an independent league team for one summer, and they had carte blanche to try any “wild experiment” they wanted. Some of the stuff worked, but some didn’t. Seeing the conflict between the old-school baseball people and the analytical interlopers was fascinating, especially as both sides came toward the other.
From Jeff's list on for fans who want to see baseball from all sides.
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