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Craig R. Wright

Auteur van The Diamond Appraised

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Craig R. Wright worked for 21 years in Major League Baseball, doing scouting and player evaluation. During most of that time he was also researching and writing the pre-game radio show A Page from Baseball's Past, which was on the air for 26 seasons with big league baseball announcer Eric Nadel as toon meer the voice of the show. Wright has kept the story series alive in a text version that is still going strong. He is also the primary author of two other books, The Diamond Appraised and The Man Who Stole First Base. toon minder

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The Diamond Appraised (1709) 86 exemplaren
Pages from Baseball's Past (2013) 7 exemplaren

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Short essays--they started as email newsletters--about random baseball topics. Absolutely delightful.
 
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joeldinda | Oct 28, 2018 |
The important stuff is Wright's three-chapter essay on pitching; there are also fine essays on Joe Morgan and Honus Wagner. Not entirely sure the Tom House material is helpful, but I'd like to see a similar book by that author.

In general, this book is not as good as I remembered. It's still very good, though, and an important sabermetric standard. Fewer numbers in here than in Bill James or Pete Palmer, but the perspective is much like James'.

This short review has also been published on a dabbler's journal.… (meer)
 
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joeldinda | May 4, 2011 |

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