Comments on: My “Sports Books Hall of Fame” http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/ Insights and ideas on personal impact, parenthood, education, and sports from the Vice President of Red Sox Nation. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Is Curt Schilling a Hall of Famer? « Crawdaddy Cove http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6920 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:04:56 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6920 [...] me he’s Hall-worthy, but one of the main lessons of Michael Lewis’s excellent book, Moneyball, is that you can’t always trust your gut — you’ve got to do the analysis. So, I [...]

]]> By: bostonblue http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6737 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:36:12 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6737 If you haven’t read it already, check out Now I Can Die in Peace by Bill Simmons. I haven’t finished it yet, but I love it so far.

]]> By: Ben Crawford http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6207 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:44:53 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6207 Yo…not sure it counts as a sports book, but it is to me: “Fantasyland” by Sam Walker is a great book about a season in fantasy baseball written by someone who went into it thinking “how stupid is this” and then gets completely addicted. Also, Baseball Prospectus’ “Baseball between the Numbers” is a fantastic book on baseball strategy based on statistics, rather than hunches and conventional wisdom.

]]> By: h http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6014 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:49:21 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-6014 One of my favorites ….
“Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy” by Jane Leavy.
A great book about Koufax.

]]> By: dan page http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-5971 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:51:47 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-5971 Makes me want to read more and writ4e more. Great job. Merry Christmas.

]]> By: Laura M http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-5955 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:04:52 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/my-sports-books-hall-of-fame/#comment-5955 Check out Where Else Would You Rather Be? by Hall of Fame Coach Marv Levy. Even if you’re not a beleaguered Bills fan, you’ll appreciate his story, his storytelling, and his intelligence. (Did you know he has an Ed.M. from Harvard in English Literature?)

This book was one of the best gifts I’ve ever received, sports-related or not.

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