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Reading is for nerds. Luckily, so is baseball. This means that there are a lot of books about baseball to read. This thread exists to:
I'd like to have the book selected by Friday, and be fake democratic so I'm open to suggestions. I'll make a poll once we have 10? Or less than that, depending on how it goes. This is the first try, afterall! My suggestions (things I own and want to read): Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball http://www.amazon.com/Wally-Yonamine-Changed-Japanese-Baseball/dp/0803213816 Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IFSV08A/ The Lords of the Realm - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345465245 -- EDITED TO ADD Cool Kids Vote Machine: http://teamnerdrage.com/2014/11/03/sas-book-club-novemberdecember-2014-book-voting/ Password is "goonygoon". e: Voting is set to end Friday 11/7 at 11:45PM ET so if you want to think it over you have time leokitty fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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I'm going to put everything into a SurveyMonkey thing we can put a password on and vote on. I'll post a link once Tavarin weighs in because I know he is a baseball book nerd like me and the Olives.
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Nov 4, 2014 01:42
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DannoMack posted:I've had my eye on this book for a while: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8192391-changing-the-game This is what we should read.
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Nov 4, 2014 02:04
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Cool Kids Vote Machine: http://teamnerdrage.com/2014/11/03/sas-book-club-novemberdecember-2014-book-voting/ Password is "goonygoon". e: Voting is set to end Friday at 11:45PM ET so if you want to think it over you have time 
leokitty fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Nov 4, 2014 02:45
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Here's where we stand so far:
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Nov 5, 2014 20:39
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I have a 45 minute commute on the train each way and am a reading machine so I'm up for anything in a month or so except the Connie Mack bios (they are cool but really dense). 
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Nov 6, 2014 05:05
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Voting closes tonight, thread will be updated with final results tomorrow.
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Nov 7, 2014 18:41
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The Lords of the Realm is our winner.
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Nov 8, 2014 19:28
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My copy of The Lords of the Realm arrived so I'm going to start reading it tomorrow. 
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Nov 12, 2014 03:24
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Sounds like everyone is getting through the book very quickly. I'm about 25% of the way done and will probably be finished before the end of the month.
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Nov 19, 2014 22:37
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Gerrit Cole's dad did some math and figured out that if he went to college he'd get more money. And he was right.
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Nov 21, 2014 16:50
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I'm a little behind where I wanted to be, but I just finished Chapter 13 and the antics of the new doofus owners like John McMullen are amazing. I somehow didn't know McMullen owned the Astros for a while, I only knew about the Devils. That worked out a bit better for him than Houston. 
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Dec 6, 2014 06:37
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How's everyone's progress going? I'm at about 400 pages in, should be finishing next week.
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Dec 11, 2014 16:54
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tadashi posted:I have the version that was updated for the 94 strike. Do other people not have that? That's the one I have. We can talk about the 94 strike without Deathlove. 
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Dec 11, 2014 21:15
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Hello, friends. Are we all finished with the book? It took me longer than I expected due to work craziness in the early part of December but I am done. Also, do we want to do another month of this?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:49
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