Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work : Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team, Paperback / softback Book

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work : Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product

Description

It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies - with real players, in a real ballpark, playing in real time.

That's what Ben Lindbergh and Sam Millergotto do when the Sonoma Stompers, an independent minor league team in California, offered them the chance to run the team's baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics.

Their story is unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read.

We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team, following one cardinal rule: It has to work.

We meet colourful figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary breakers like the first openly gay player in American professional baseball.

Even Jose Canseco makes a cameo appearance. Will their knowledge of numbers bring the Stompers a championship?

Will the team have a competitive advantage, or is the old folk wisdom really true after all?

Will the players attract the attention of big league scouts or will this be a fast track to oblivion?It's a wild ride, as the authors' infectious enthusiasm and feel for the absurd make the Stompers' story one that will speak to numbers geeks and traditionalists alike. And in a new afterword, Lindbergh and Miller pick up the story in a new season to show how the team and its players continue to break new ground, on and off the field.

Information

Save 15%

£12.99

£10.95

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information