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Original Title:	Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame
ISBN:	0684800888 (ISBN13: 9780684800882)
Edition Language:	English

Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

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Title	:	Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory
Author	:	Bill James
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	April 6th 1995 by Free Press (first published May 2nd 1994)
Categories	:	Sports. Baseball. Nonfiction. History

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Picked this up on a whim at a used book sale and am damn glad I only paid a dollar. It's obviously out of date (James bites down HARD on "Pete Rose got a raw deal!" just a few years before Pete admitted to everything), but also, James, for all his rep as a SABREmetrician...offers a lot of oddly subjective criteria. There's also a big focus on players before, say, the Cobb/Ruth era, and that's just something I struggle to care about (maybe that's my failing).

On the other hand, I did enjoy the chapters on the history of Cooperstown and the Hall.

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Picked this up on a whim at a used book sale and am damn glad I only paid a dollar. It's obviously out of date (James bites down HARD on "Pete Rose got a raw deal!" just a few years before Pete admitted to everything), but also, James, for all his rep as a SABREmetrician...offers a lot of oddly subjective criteria. There's also a big focus on players before, say, the Cobb/Ruth era, and that's just something I struggle to care about (maybe that's my failing). On the other hand, I did enjoy the

Really only suited for baseball history geeks, but it does include lines like "It's enormously difficult to get to Cooperstown (NY) seven months of the year, and Marco Polo couldn't get there during the other five."

Being a baseball fanatic I absolutely loved this book. It is well worth checking out.

Being a baseball fanatic I absolutely loved this book. It is well worth checking out.

I read this during my brief interest in sabermetrics. Bill James is the king of this hobby. He makes convincing cases for his arguments, although I did not agree with all of them. James argued convincingly against the Veterans Committee, which is the old boys club of the Hall. This is how favored players who are not qualified get in through the back door.A fun and interesting read. If you need barstool arguing fodder, give it a read.

George William Bill James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton, Kansas) is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and

Not James' liveliest book, it is still as persuasive and as painstakingly researched as anything James writes.His forte is less statistics than the ability to put statistics into context. So the next time you hear somebody advocate for a bum like, say, Jack Morris, who has a couple of gaudy stats but no legitimate claim to the Hall of Fame, you can be prepared to discuss the matter intelligently.Or you can skip the background reading and just say, "Oh yeah, sez you," a whole bunch.