I just finished reading the Politics of Glory, our next book club selection. Without yet getting into the content, I was surprised at how many errors there...
Stew and friends: I have the same edition (hardcover, from Macmillan). I wonder if later editions caught some of these egregious errors, some worse than...
I can't look up the page at the moment (I'm on the road) but at one point he also places Kid Nichols on the 1894 Baltimore Orioles, the archrivals of Nichols'...
... Ah yes, it is embarasing (even embarrassing) to be caught with typos in a message about typos. But I feel less chagrined about typos in an e- list post...
... Some things in the book that stood out to me: Chapter 5 – It's interesting that what happened early in the process with the BBWAA voting is what's...
Hope to see a bunch of you at the Hot Stove Saturday Morning at 9 this Saturday at Bakers Square, 66th Street just east of Xerxes in Richfield. Jerry and I...
Interesting observations, Stew. The discussion of peak value vs. career value raises the Kirby Puckett issue, which I had recently been thinking about anyway....
I would not have voted for Puckett, but I think he was clearly more deserving than Hrbek. While they arrived there in different ways, they were nearly...
As bad as the Frisch influence was, he was not alone. And from 1945-1946 (long before Frisch joined them) the VC added Tommy McCarthy, perhaps the worst HOF...
... Beyond the reasons Alan stated regarding the differences between Hrbek and Puckett, a big thing that helped Puckett was the perceived image of him. It's...
April 11 is the date for the next Halsey Hall Chapter Book Club meeting. That means you've got four weeks to read (or re-read) Bill James's The Politics of...
Great news, fellow chapter members. We have a guest speaker for the Spring Meeting. He is former Twin Julio Becquer and I contacted him this morning and he...
The Halsey Hall Chapter book club will be meeting Saturday, April 11 to discuss Bill James's The Politics of Glory: How Baseball's Hall of Fame Really Works....
Congratulations to Tom Swift and Dan Levitt for awards and honors they've received for their biographies about Chief Bender and Ed Barrow. Chief Bender's...
You won't realize how much of an honor the award is for me by anything I'll say in this reply -- thanks, Stew, Art and Bob -- but please know that I know...
Tom, "Twould have been a fine response even if you hadn't mentioned my minor contribution! The award recognized your excellent, painstaking and creative work. ...
That seems like a pretty embarrassing mistake. Stew, can you do a little digging and find out how, and by whom, it was made? (I just hope Houk doesn't die in...
... I asked around yesterday, but no one is claiming responsiblity. In 1978, there was an incorrect item in the Delta Upsilon Quarterly magazine that said that...
I suppose with Grady Sizemore in center, Franklin Gutierrez had to play mostly left or right field when he was in Cleveland. Now in Seattle, he's playing...
I thought the same thing Stew. During the game, I wrote to someone today that Gutierrez looks like a legitimate gold glove candidate. He's been impressive all...
... They dropped Gomez and brought in a non-roster invitee? :) -- John Gregory ashbury at skypoint.com http://www.skypoint.com/ tilde ashbury Thought for...
Don't forget about the Halsey Hall Chapter Book Club, which meets Saturday, April 11 (that's tomorrow) at 9:30 a.m. to discuss The Politics of Glory, Bill...
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