Bill Felber: 4 books
The Book on The Book
A Landmark Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Diehard fanatics will enjoy this comprehensive collection of groundbreaking baseball strategies, analyses, statistics, and studies
Baseball fans all across America will delight in this fascinating analysis of strategies and statistics. This unique approach to understanding the "tried and...
Inventing Baseball
The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years, starting with a game in 1833. From the "prisoner of war" game that took place among captive Union soldiers during the Civil War (immortalized in...
A Game of Brawl
The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history; it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. This book re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the...
The Hole Truth
Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Ever wonder whether Tiger Woods in his prime would have beaten Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, or Jack Nicklaus in their primes? And could any of them have beaten Babe Zaharias? Obviously, if Bobby Jones were returned to life and health and then given his old hickory-shafted mashie, persimmon-headed driver,...