Baseball Prospectus: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season by Steven Goldman |
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Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion. Through the years, the renowned palaeontologist published numerous essays on the sport which have now been collected in this volume.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in May 2002.
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This introductory and longest piece of the book exists to fulfill a promise made to one of my best baseball friends, author Steve King, who wrote to me in late October 1992: "I think you should set aside a small but not inconsequential block of time-three weeks, maybe a month-to write a long (20,000 to 30,000 words) 'linchpin essay' that would place your love and knowledge of baseball among the other landmarks of your rather remarkable life." Read the first page
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This introductory and longest piece of the book exists to fulfill a promise made to one of my best baseball friends, author Steve King, who wrote to me in late October 1992: "I think you should set aside a small but not inconsequential block of time-three weeks, maybe a month-to write a long (20,000 to 30,000 words) 'linchpin essay' that would place your love and knowledge of baseball among the other landmarks of your rather remarkable life." Read the first page
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