The only rule is it has to work our wild experiment building a new kind of baseball team
"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, in a real playoff race. That's what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in C...
| Main Authors: | Lindbergh, Ben (Author), Miller, Sam (Sportswriter) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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, in a real playoff race. That's what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it Has to Work is unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read"--Amazon.com |
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| Physical Description: |
x, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781627795647 (hardcover) 1627795642 (hardcover) |
| Author Notes: |
Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for FiveThirtyEight and, with Sam Miller, the cohost of Effectively Wild , the daily Baseball Prospectus podcast. He is a former staff writer for Grantland and a former editor in chief of Baseball Prospectus . He lives in New York City. |