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ESPN - Sep 3, 2010
Alex Rodriguez, the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball, has split with agent Scott Boras, according to multiple media reports. ... Baseball Tonight Clubhouse
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by: Michael Lewis
I was never a fan of baseball for many reasons. One reason that hit me hard at a young age was the lack of a salary cap. This made me feel like winning could be bought with millions of dollars. Thankfully the teams with the most money also had the most archaic way of interpreting how to build an efficient baseball team. The teams that took a scientific approach to building a winning team while also abandoning the traditional scouting techniques began winning. Voilà, moneyball is created. The best part of this book is not how the teams with less money reinvented the game, it's how the insiders of baseball openly deny fact, science, and the possibility that they could be wrong without even blinking.
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Blockade Billy

by: Stephen King
Blockade Billy was an okay story, though not incredibly exciting. It tells the story of Blockade Billy, the catcher who was erased from history because of something really terrible that he did (I don't want to spoil the end in case you do want to read it). It's told as if it was just like Granny (one of the baseball team's managers) telling the story, no extra description or background that wasn't necessary, or anything else; just the story told like you would tell a friend who wasn't there. That was an element that I did like.
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Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball

by: Bill Madden
I puzzled over this fascinating portrait of an unforgettable man.

Why did a man with all the money, breeding and business sense to succeed, fail to recognize that his biggest barrier to steady success was himself?

Madden and the people interviewed here make much of his father's cold relationship to him - that George Steinbrenner, no matter what he accomplished, was constantly put down and belittled by his father. That may be part of it. Much of his life can be reduced to episodes of the tough-Prussian side of him, his father's side, stomping over others, followed by periods where George the unloved child feels remorse and the pain suffered by those he's treated like his father treated him.
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The Natural

by: Bernard Malamud
The Natural is a 1952 novel by Bernard Malamud; it inspired the eponymous 1984 Robert Redford film, to which it bears only passing similarity. Here, the talented Roy Hobbs, a thirty-five-year-old rookie, tries to make a name for himself in Major League Baseball after a psychopath's gunshot nearly killed him when he was nineteen.

The story is loosely based on the true story of Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus, and also heavily includes elements of baseball myths and legends, most notably that of Shoeless Joe Jackson.
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