The Only Rule Is It Has to Work

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

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It took me a year, but I finally finished this book. The audio was excellent. If you‘re a baseball fan, you will love it. I am not, so the parts about the game and statistics bored the hell out of me. The human interest stuff (and, lbr, the Read Harder challenge) kept me going. If you like baseball, I highly recommend! If not, I‘d skip it.

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ness

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

Working on my Mass Effect Holiday Cheer gift so I don‘t get harvested by Holiday Harbinger.

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ness

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

Got a couple hours in on the way to the beach! #24in48

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librarydebster

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

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Great book about a independent minor league baseball team. Read for the #popsugarreadingchallenge (book bought on a trip)

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ness

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

Time to work on checking off the sports book category for the #readharder challenge.

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missevievelyn

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

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I looove baseball!! ā¯¤ā¾ļø¸ including the stats side, so this was a great book for me. It's about two baseball analysts who get to run an independent minor-league team and, in theory, can freely try out weird statistical strategies with it. While there is some of that (the 5-man infield bit was great!), it actually ends up being a lot about clubhouse dynamic, players' careers, and why they CAN'T just freely try out crazy stuff. Still great šš‘¨

ReadingSusan Ohhh I love baseball too. This sounds so good! 8y

missevievelyn @ReadingSusan it was a lot of fun and also really fascinating! 8y

CallMeIshmael I love baseball so much 8y

Suet624 I'm a baseball girl too. I'll check this out. 8y

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missevievelyn

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

#bookhaul!! šborrowed these from my dad, pretty excited about both of them! I'm starting The Only Rule Is It Has To Work first. It sounds fascinating and I looove the stats side of baseball, plus I think the first openly gay pro baseball player is on their team and it looks at that some. Hopefully these can sustain me until spring training and the WBC! Any other baseball fans on Litsy?? ā¾ļø¸ā¯¤š

RanaElizabeth Have you read Moneyball? 8y

missevievelyn @RanaElizabeth I HAVEN'T, I know I should probably start with that for baseball stats books haha... but it's definitely on my tbr! I loved the movie. 8y

RanaElizabeth I'm much more interested in your book, MLB level baseball is still 100% profits driven even when stats are used. I can imagine there is more leeway with semi-pro / amateur ball that allows for crazy ideas. 8y

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annkuch13 Omg the Nightrunner series is one of my favorites!! 8y

missevievelyn @annkuch13 ME TOOO, I love them so much!!! That's my stack of all-time favourites, the only books I brought to grad school with me that I'd already read. 8y

annkuch13 So cool! ā¯¤š“ 8y

Cortg Yes! The all-American sport. There is nothing I enjoy more than watching my son play ball. ā¯¤ļø¸ 8y

missevievelyn @Cortg awesome!! Although as a Canadian fan I'd argue that baseball isn't all that all-American at all š‰ 8y

Cortg @missevievelyn You are correct! My son and husband went to Toronto a couple summers ago to catch a game. They're trying to visit all 30 Major League stadiums! 8y

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Coffeymuse

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

sinus headache today, not sure how much I'll actually get read on my lunch. Love the pickles though š‹

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Coffeymuse

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

I received this back in April to review! Oops! Liking this one-however Christmas music and baseball is an odd combo.

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Deezer89

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

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As a note, you will only like this book if you like the nerdy side of baseball. That being said? Chapter 9 is about the first openly gay professional baseball player (a pitcher named Sean Conroy) and it is AMAZING

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Deezer89

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

And now my every-so-often foray into baseball's nerdy side

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jeff

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Sam Miller, Ben Lindbergh

Now hiring: general manager of a minor-league baseball team in Sonoma. No experience required. Excited to see what two sports writers (and baseball stats nerds) with no restrictions (2 outfielders - why not??) achieved running a real team. Fantasy baseball come to life!