Howard Megdal: 4 books
Taking the Field
A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
With 162 games a year, the playoffs, and an active offseason, baseball fans almost never stop thinking about their team. And Howard Megdal is no exception: a lifelong and feverish Mets fan, he has been there through thick and (more often) thin. And yet-year in and year out, the Mets seem to find ways...
Wilpon's Folly
The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
On December 11, 2008, in the middle of a busy baseball offseason, Bernard Madoff was arrested for orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Among his chief investors was Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who not only lost a major revenue stream as a result, but is now being sued for "fictitious profits"...
The Cardinals Way
How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The St. Louis Cardinals have experienced the kind of success that is rare in baseball. Regarded by many as the premier organization in Major League Baseball, they not only win, but do so with an apparently bottomless pool of talent, one that is mostly homegrown.
Despite years of phenomenal...
The Baseball Talmud
The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, The Baseball Talmud provides a wonderful historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America. All the stats, the facts, the stories, and the (often unheralded) glory.
The Baseball Talmud...