Quick Book Review: Scorecasting
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played And Games Are Won
by Moskowitz & Wertheim
The blurb said it was Freakonomics for sports, and that’s not too far from the mark.
Essentially a collection of essays long and short, Scorecasting offers a non-intuitive, economics-based explanation for many sports curiosities.… Read more...
Book Review: Baseball Forecaster
Baseball Forecaster
by Ron Shandler (et al.)
Each year Ron Shandler and his cohorts come up with some of the best baseball analysis and forecasting in the industry and place it all into approximately 300 pages of fantasticness.
This is no different.
Not for the casual fan; this is highly-focussed stuff where many pages upon first glance would seem like log tables.… Read more...
Book Review: Wasters
Wasters
By Shane Ross and Nick Webb
A reasoned but fractured account of cronyism and waste in the Irish state and semi-state sector. It suffers from very obviously having two authors in that there seems to be changes in style every so often that subtly throw off the reader (i.e.… Read more...
Book Review: The Englishman’s Suit
The Englishman’s Suit
by Hardy Amies
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The topic at hand being the history of what we recognise to be a suit, Amies takes the reader on a journey from the 1600s to the end of the 20th century. It’s an enjoyable jaunt, though not something to be picked up by the casual browser.… Read more...
Book Review: Out of My League
Out of My League: The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball
by George Plimpton
This pleasantly short read provides one with an account of how the author arranged to pitch to the lineups at the 1958 MLB All-Star game, to be played at the great Yankee Stadium, and to write an article about the experience to feature in Sports Illustrated.
