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 California, the...

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Main Authors: Lindbergh, Ben (Author), Miller, Sam (Sportswriter) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a The Sonoma Stompers : opening day roster -- Not joking at all -- Sonoma dreaming -- Modern baseball -- Tryouts -- Spreadsheet guys -- No feel -- Taking the field -- Technical difficulties -- Breaking barriers -- Fehball -- Pulling the trigger -- Evidences -- Sands of time -- Burn the ships -- It is high, it is far ... -- The Sonoma Stompers : final team statistics. 
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