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Seamheads.com Bookstore is Open For Business
Seamheads.com Bookstore is Open For Business
We're proud to announce the launch of our bookstore in affiliation with Amazon.com. You can find it by clicking on the "Bookstore" tab located just below our banner or on the link in the sidebar to the right. We're currently featuring books written by Seamheads.com writers, authors we've interviewed, and authors we've enjoyed reading over the years
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Bronx Banter: Ten Essential Baseball Books
Last month I received an e-mail from Chris Illuminati, the content editor of Phillyburbs.com. He told me he was asking different people for one baseball book that they'd consider essential. I picked No Cheering From the Press Box,Jerome Holtzman's ...

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'82 Brewers infield among baseball's great quartets
'82 Brewers infield among baseball's great quartets
Posted: May 6, 2008 Anyone can tell you the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers infield was really good. Baseball analyst Bill James can tell you the '82 Brewers infield is tied with the 1975 Cincinnati Reds as the sixth-best infield in almost the entire history ...
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Carter James Arney
Carter James Arney
Just wanted to interject a quick post here amidst the little winning streak the Reds have going now, and let everyone know where I've been for the past few weeks. Carter James Arney was born on April 9th, and he's been keeping me pretty ...
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The Battle for Jamie Campbell's Soul
The Battle for Jamie Campbell's Soul
A busy weekend of sports (team of destiny sets course, middling basketball team loses in Detroit for 1000th time) forced two of this weekend's Jays games from the domestic airways. Thankfully, Rogers offers those of us that offer the blood of their first born every month a respite: out-of-market Jays games as part of a MLB Extra Innings free preview. While not in HD (quibbling), watching the ...
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Craig Messmer is Not the Next Bill James
Book review of Craig Messmer's State One - a misguided attempt at ranking players through his own player performance system.
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Fantasy baseball commish takes responsibility way too seriously
WHITE PLAINS, NY — John Calvin got married in February, but he won’t think twice if you ask him to name the best thing that has happened this year. “No question, when I was named the commissioner of the Liberty Tavern Baseball ...
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What are your essential baseball books?
What are your essential baseball books?
I'm gonna keep kicking this baseball book club thing for a while until it magically forms of its own accord and takes a life of its own. In the meantime, why don't we gather together the list of books that are deemed "essential" for a well-read ...
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The Batting Hall of Current
A topic that never ceases to cause debate in the baseball writing community is who does or does not belong in the hall of fame. Most of the debate revolves around whether or not a player has “the numbers.” The majority of those chiming ...
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More Proof Brian Bannister Digs Voros
In an interview with the Seattle Times, Brian Bannister talks about our own Voros McCracken...
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Free Agent Stock Watch: Adam Dunn
Adam Dunn will be a free agent after this season. So it's a safe bet that Dunn is going to have a career year and will cash in this winter, right? Not so fast. Dunn, who has hit exactly 40 home runs in each of the past three seasons, has only two ...
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The Square Root of the Sum of the Squares of the Other Two Sides
The Square Root of the Sum of the Squares of the Other Two Sides
In a desperate attempt to quell my own fears about the bad start, I tried to look beyond a simple "it's still early" approach to these April struggles. A more comforting thought is "it's still early and there has been an inordinate amount of bad luck." The Toronto Blue Jays Pythagorean Won - Loss record is 13-12. One game OVER the ever important .500 level. Via Baseball Reference we can do ...
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Yanks should get rid of Giambi
Rob Neyer WEBLOG | RSS | PRINT BLOG BASEBALL Rob Neyer is a senior writer at ESPN.com. He began his career with legendary baseball author (and now Red Sox executive) Bill James, then joined Stats Inc. and wrote about MLB, the NFL and the NBA. Neyer ...