Ever since there has been a professional game, baseball fans have enjoyed debating comparisons of one player to another—both contemporaries and players across various eras in the sport’s history. The Baseball Same Game adds to those debates. However, rather than focus on the traditional “Who’s better?” arguments (such as “Mantle or Mays?” or “Ruth or Aaron?”) The Baseball Same Game takes on the particular cases of “Which players were the same?” Unique baseball metrics—apart from those common and conventional baseball statistics that one would typically see on the back of a player’s bubble gum card—are used to analyze career performance. And, The Baseball Same Game gives consideration to relativity when comparing statistics of baseball players from different eras in the game. Which baseball all-time greats were the same in terms of their relative performance? Who are the recently retired players that match-up to the stars of baseball’s past? What players not in the Baseball Hall of Fame measure up to those already in the Hall? The Baseball Same Game provides these answers and more.
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Steve Lombardi began his baseball fanaticism over thirty years ago. His baseball analysis has been featured on several websites since 1997. Steve lives in Monmouth County, New Jersey, with his wife and two children. The Baseball Same Game is his first book.
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A great book for the real baseball fan!,
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This review is from: The Baseball Same Game: Finding Comparable Players From The National Pastime (Paperback)
A really unusual book from a first time writer. Lombardi, (with whom I am familiar from various web sites and blogs) is extraordinarily knowledgable about baseball. His passion for the game is obvious. Using some interesting ideas he compares the performance of some of the greats and near greats of the game. He has a unique methodolgy that is fun and intriguing. This is a great book for any knowledgable baseball fan. It is also a quick read.
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This review is from: The Baseball Same Game: Finding Comparable Players From The National Pastime (Paperback)
What the author does in this book is take two players with very similiar stats and compare them - it doesn't matter if he's comparing a catcher to an outfielder, etc. - he compared two players with similiar stats, kinda like comparing an orange shaped like an apple, if you will. What I was hoping the book would be is comparing similiar players across generational timelines - ie. comparing Ryne Sandberg to Charlie Gehringer for example - so that he could start more discussion in comparing players across different eras. I think far too much basic info is given about each player for those who would be interested in this kind of book, which makes you start to skip thru sections and wonder what the book is really about, instead of holding your interest the whole way through.
At this time, I am proposing two ideas for Amazon reviews: 1. The Amazon List Price Theory - Amazon is selling a book at its list price for a reason - it probably isn't very good so it isn't selling with any volume, therefore it's still at list price. 2. The Sneak A Peek Theory - if the publisher or author doesn't give readers the opportunity to sneak a peak at it before buying, then it mustn't be very good - if your book is any good, then you'll want people to read some before they buy.
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