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“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth,
and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”
– Boswell’s
Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 1
Samuel Johnson
They now (either temporarily or permanently) omit any links to pages of books. Such pages were formerly available through the Google Books page for a given book, using the “Search” function on that page. But Google has somehow screwed it up so that clicking on “Search” just gets the message To protect your security, books.google.com will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window. Nothing is being “embedded” anywhere, but that’s all she wrote. (Googling that matter shows that others, too, have the same issue.) Regrettably, that means that salient extracts from Michael Lewis’s Moneyball and—even greater loss—from Alan Schwarz’s The Numbers Game cannot be linked here.
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The New York Times:
Thinking Outside the Box Score (copy; original behind a paywall)
Baseball America:
The Great Debate [archived]
Baseball Prospectus: Prospectus Hit and Run:
Having a Ball
New York Daily News:
Book excerpt: Sandy Alderson, subject of ‘Baseball Maverick’ about Mets GM
The Mathematical Association of America: Devlin’s Angle:
A game of numbers [archived]
NetShrine:
Alan Schwarz - The Numbers Game [archived]
Athletics Nation:
Reviving Moneyball Play: Why I Hate The Sacrifice Bunt
Baseball Prospectus:
Chat: Rany Jazayerli (skip down to Will Brown’s query) [archived]
Langsam Stevens & Silver: Review of “Moneyball”:
What Is Moneyball Really About? [archived]
Baseball Crank:
BASEBALL: The Numbers Game [archived]
ESPN:
A Numbers Revolution [archived]
WCBS NewsRaido:
Remembering the Days of Strat-O-Matic [archived]
Friar Forecast:
Statheads in the front office [archived]
Baseball Prospectus:
UTK Wrap
SABR: By the Numbers:
A Closer Look at the OBP/SLG Ratio (PDF file: article starts on page 10)
The Cheap Seats:
The man behind the man behind Moneyball [archived]
The Whiz Kid’s Baseball Wisdom:
The 15 Greatest Baseball Books
Dan Agonistes:
The Numbers Game
Marinerds, Etc.:
The Numbers Game
Over the Baggy:
Planning for Next Year [archived]
Athletics Nation:
Billy Beane Visits AN: Offseason Edition Part III
Athletics Nation:
Let’s Talk Lineups [archived]
Ducksnorts:
Chatting With Sandy Alderson (Part 1) [archived]
A Citizen’s Blog:
On Hitting: The Season in Review, 2007 [archived]
Wikipedia:
Earnshaw Cook
Knowledge@Wharton (Wharton University):
Sandy Alderson on the Modern Business of Baseball
Just A Bit Outside (Rob Neyer):
Slowing the unabated #StrikeoutScourge [archived]
The Baseball Chronicle:
The Once and Future Baseball Man
Afflictor:
There Will Be An IT Coach At Some Point In The Dugout
Mets Merized Online:
Hardball With Baseball Maverick Author Steve Kettmann [archived]
Misc. Baseball:
A Timeline of the Sabermetrics Revolution
The Paris Review:
This Week’s Reading: Staff Picks
Doc’s Books:
Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets, by Steve Kettmann
Walk Like a Sabermetrician:
Power Factor
Big Bad Baseball:
Tales of Two-Dimensionality: The Decline of the Walkman
Futility Infielder:
Stat Crazy After All These_Years: The Numbers Game [archived]
University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business:
Moneyball and Business Analytics [archived]
Baseball Minutia:
Those stats at the bottom of the screen [archived]
Chartered Quality Institute:
Playing with numbers [archived]
Baseball Prospectus:
The Class of 2011: Bagwell and Baggage [archived]
New Jersey On-Line:
Mets hitting coach Dave Hudgens preaches narrowed pitch selection in quest to reach base
Beyond the Box Score:
Evaluating Sandy Alderson’s baseball legacy [archived]
ESPN:
Alan Schwarz Chat [archived]
ESPN:
Sabermetricians slowly being added to the inner circle [archived]
Athletics nation:
Alderson and Beane
Sports Illustrated:
Despite steroid scandals, retiring Giambi rebuilt his reputation
ESPN:
Memorable missteps [archived]
MLB:
Q&A: Alderson’s thoughts on analytics
Baseball Prospectus:
Prospectus Hit and Run: Sandy’s The Man
ESPN UK:
A numbers revolution
FanGraphs:
JAWS and the 2020 Hall of Fame Ballot: Jason Giambi
Japan Ball:
“Chatter Up!” with Baseball Renaissance Man Sandy Alderson
Raising Matt Cain:
In A Pinch, Panik
Baseball Fever:
History of Baseball Statistics & Sabermetrics
World Affairs Board:
Did Roger Maris Use Steroids? [archived]
Marty Andrade:
Fielding in Baseball
Politics and Prosperity:
Pseudoscience, “Moneyball,” and Luck
A Citizen’s Blog:
Glove Week!, Part I: Fielding Then and Now [archived]
Dan Agonistes:
The Numbers Game
WebCircle:
Baseball Quote of the Day
Sabermetrico:
History of Sabermetrics [original in Spanish: link is to Google-translated English-language page]
Another Cubs Blog:
Getting bigger equals steroids use! [archived]
The Dan Greene: The Blog:
Buzz Bissinger: Author, Shitpisser, Misconstrued Luddite [archived]
Dan Agonistes:
The Luck of the Single
Afflictor:
“But How Can Someone Get A Job When You’re Unlocking The Secrets Of The Universe?”
Voros McCracken:
A.J. Pierzynski and Erik Kratz Think Analytics Guys Like Me Have Feelings
CBS Sports:
How the Oakland A’s shaped modern baseball: 56-year run defined by Rickey Henderson, ‘Moneyball’ and much more
ESPN:
Sandy Alderson in-depth
Planet of Success:
60 Awesome Baseball Quotes (@ #38)
Instagram:
Montclair Baseball
Instagram:
stevenikorak
Transtutors:
Aerospace engineer turned baseball writer Eric Walker writes that the most important statistic for a baseball player is “on-base percentage”
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