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	• Baseball Prospectus: 2001 Edition (Baseball Prospectus) Jeff Bower Potomac Books, 2001 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Stellar, as usual

BP remains the standard for baseball annuals, with zillions of player comments both informative and entertaining, and team comments which are generally excellent.

They know more about more players than anyone else.

Minor quibble: Every year the back cover exhalts BP's predictive prowess and gives examples, yet for some reason the 2001 edition fails to speak of, for instance, the success of the Minnesota Twins and Jeff Kubenka. But that's just marketing, I suppose -- it is a great book.

Most intelligent baseball writers in print

If you're a thinking baseball fan you need to read this book. It covers every player you've heard of, and most of those you haven't. After reading this book, your next step is to go to their website ... on a daily basis for more of their top notch writing and analysis.

Their team articles are insightful, witty, biting and entertaining. I find myself grabbing one of my three copies from my shelf and enjoying them, even if I pick the one that's three years old. How many other baseball annuals can you say that about?

Thanks guys...keep up the good work.

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A Perennial Favorite

Baseball Prospectus opens up a new world for the uninitiated and continues to inform those of us who've studied the game. Just put it on your springtime shopping list each year, kind of like grass seed.

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best annual baseball book since Bill James stopped doing it

After years of withdrawal symptoms from missing my annual dose of Bill James, I have at last found a substitute. These guys are not always on the nose -- their obsession with positions is a bit limiting to my mind, for one thing -- but they're right a helluva lot more often than they're wrong, and they've already proven themselves prophetic in many instances (for example, the White Sox's migrating back to the middle of the pack and the Mets' collapse). Plus, they're good writers -- not only are their analyses far more cogent than most sportswriters (admittedly, not a difficult task, since most sportswriters, not to mention analysts, can't tell their rear ends from their elbows), but those analyses are great fun to read for aesthetic reasons.

Anybody who really cares about the game will love this book.

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Here's the book that ESPN Sportzone's Rob Neyer called "the best book of its kind." Updated for the 2001 season, the BASEBALL PROSPECTUS analyzes every top player in each organization all the way down to rookie ball, with objective, intelligent commentary and irreverent humor. The PROSPECTUS gives the final word on what the players did, why they did it, and what they're going to do in the future.

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