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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

On-Line Baseball-Related Material By and About Eric Walker

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By Eric Walker

• Deadspin: The Forgotten Man Of Moneyball, Part 1 |  The Forgotten Man Of Moneyball, Part 2

• Steroids, Other “Drugs”, and Baseball: a fact-based examination of its title subject [web site]

• The Baseball Analysts: Precisely Inaccurate

• The Baseball Analysts: Common Run-Production Formulae Evaluated

• Personal site: “The Web Site of the Other Eric Walker”

• Personal blog: “Is It a Blog Yet?” includes posts related to “baseball” (most are multi-topic, but include baseball-relevant content)

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About Eric Walker’s Book

• Reviews: at Amazon

• Reviews: at Goodreads

• Ratings: at The Book Depository

• Review: at The Journal of Mind and Behavior (Access requires registration through a school or library.)

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About Eric Walker

General

• ESPN: New York Mets: Original A’s analyst discusses Alderson

• Another Cubs Blog: Baseball and OBP (archived)

• Another Cubs Blog: Ricketts interested in Sandy Alderson? (archived)

• Athletics Nation Book Club: Are the playoffs a crapshoot?

• Athletics Nation Book Club: The Myth of Clutch Hitting

• Athletics Nation Book Club: The Myth of the Importance of Defense

• Athletics Nation Book Club: The Myth of Smallball as Sound Baseball

• Athletics Nation Book Club: The Importance of a Batting Lineup

• Baseball Chix: The Importance (or lack thereof) of Defense / Slugging Percentage/Power Factor in Baseball (archived)

• Baseball Prospectus: Eric Walker Interview (audio file; archived)

• Athletics Nation: A Rebuttal: Moneyball Wasn’t Really About the Money

• ESPN: Original A’s Analyst Discusses Alderson

• Afflictor: Who Am I, And Why Would I Be Considered Some Sort Of Expert On Moneyball?

• The Joy of Sox: Eric Walker And “Moneyball”

• Baseball Think Factory: Deadspin: The Forgotten Man of Moneyball

PEDs-Related

• The New York Times: A Voice of Skepticism on the Impact of Steroids

• Joe Posnanski: What If We Are Wrong Again About Steroids? (archived)

• AOL News: Finding Reasonable Doubt in Baseball’s Steroid Era (archived)

• blogtalkradio: Eric Walker Discusses PEDs and His Website “Steroids, Other ‘Drugs’, and Baseball”

• Steven Rubio’s Online Life: Eric Walker on drugs and baseball

• Words, Pictures, Baseball: Some needed facts about steroids and baseball

• Bay Bridge Baseball: Barry Bonds and steroids (archived)

• Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered: Important Work (archived)

• Fire Joe Morgan: Clarification: Eric Walker

• YankFan/SoxFan: Over the Wall, Over the Line (scroll down a bit)

• Behind These Hazel Eyes: All I Can Do is Smile

• Baseball HQ Radio: Longtime baseball researcher Eric Walker contends that steroids did not affect power hitting in baseball.

• SB Nation: Baseball’s Steroid Era: What If Steroids Aren’t To Blame?

• Hardball Talk, NBC Sports: Steroids do not help hitters hit home runs

• Deadspin: On Juiced Balls and Homer-Happy Yankee Stadium

• ProCon.org: Sports and Drugs

• Houston’s Clear Thinkers: The improving conversation about PED’s in baseball (archived)

• The Crimson: The Impure Game

• The Daily News Tribune: Merritt: Baseball needs no asterisks (archived)

• Salon: King Kaufman’s Sports Daily: Steroids and the mob (archived)

• The Whiz Kid’s Baseball Wisdom: Shut the f*** up about HGH

• The Wages of Wins: The NFL Playoffs and Steroids in Baseball

• ProCon.org: Do athletes gain an unfair advantage by using performance enhancing drugs? (archived)

• Baseball Prospectus: Chat: Rany Jazayerli

• Steroid Report: Anabolic Steroids and Power Factor Statistics in Baseball (archived)

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Citing Eric Walker

• The New York Times: Thinking Outside the Box Score (page 2 of 2)

• 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)

• Langsam Stevens & Silver: Review of “Moneyball”: What Is Moneyball Really About? (archived)

• Baseball Crank: BASEBALL: The Numbers Game (archived)

• ESPN: A Numbers Revolution

• WCBS NewsRaido: Remembering the Days of Strat-O-Matic (archived)

• The Crawfish Boxes: One lesson Astros owner Drayton McLane MUST learn this offseason

• 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)

• 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

• The Journal of Mind and Behavior: Book Review : The Sinister First Baseman and Other Observations (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

• Moneyball, Michael Lewis: “The Enlightenment”

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Google Books: The Numbers Game

• ESPN: Alan Schwarz Chat

• 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

• MLB: Q&A: Alderson’s thoughts on analytics

• Google Books: Baseball Maverick

• 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

• Keystone Nationals: Quotables

• Japan Ball: “Chatter Up!” with Baseball Renaissance Man Sandy Alderson

• ilXor: Baseball Books

• Raising Matt Cain: In A Pinch, Panik

• Baseball Fever: History of Baseball Statistics & Sabermetrics

• World Affairs Board: Did Roger Maris Use Steroids?

• 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)

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