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Highlights
- How do baseball teams win?
- About the Author: Dayn Perry is a regular contributor to FoxSports.com, SportingNews.com and Baseball Prospectus.
- 248 Pages
- Sports + Recreation, Baseball
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About the Book
How do baseball teams win? In the entertaining and controversial "Winners," stat-head-hero Dayn Perry puts forth answers by analyzing all the ingredients people say a team needs to win. Instead of just crunching numbers, however, he turns them into fun narratives, spinning out stories of teams and players that exemplify the myths and realities of winning.Book Synopsis
How do baseball teams win? In the entertaining and controversial "Winners," stat-head-hero Dayn Perry puts forth answers by analyzing all the ingredients people say a team needs to win. Instead of just crunching numbers, however, he turns them into fun narratives, spinning out stories of teams and players that exemplify the myths and realities of winning.From the Back Cover
"We're all winners, as Dayn Perry serves as our trusted guide on this idiosyncratic but profoundly informative walking tour of the great teams and players of the last few decades."--Rob Neyer, ESPN.com
"Dayn Perry's really got something here. Part history, part handbook, Winners is an essential read for anyone trying to understand how great teams get that way."
--Joe Sheehan, BaseballProspetus.com
"We look at baseball from so many angles today that we too often forget the point is not to look at the game from an interesting view for its own sake, but to learn how it works, in the service of learning why teams win. Any fan who wants to know will find their answers in this book."
--Tim Marchman, baseball columnist, "The New York Sun"
"Dayn Perry crafts a lively narrative that blends astute analysis with clever storytelling. He gets to the bottom of what makes a great team tick."
--Kevin Towers, General Manager and Executive Vice President, San Diego Padres
Review Quotes
Praise for Winners
"We're all winners, as Dayn Perry serves as our trusted guide on this idiosyncratic but profoundly informative walking tour of the great teams and players of the last few decades."
-Rob Neyer, ESPN.com
"Dayn Perry's really got something here. Part history, part handbook, Winners is an essential read for anyone trying to understand how great teams get that way."
--Joe Sheehan, BaseballProspetus.com
"We look at baseball from so many angles today that we too often forget the point is not to look at the game from an interesting view for its own sake, but to learn how it works, in the service of learning why teams win. Any fan who wants to know will find their answers in this book."
--Tim Marchman, baseball columnist, The New York Sun
"Dayn Perry crafts a lively narrative that blends astute analysis with clever storytelling. He gets to the bottom of what makes a great team tick."
--Kevin Towers, General Manager and Executive Vice President, San Diego Padres
About the Author
Dayn Perry is a regular contributor to FoxSports.com, SportingNews.com and Baseball Prospectus. Besides writing two weekly columns for the Baseball Prospectus Web site, he also helped write the last two editions of "Baseball Prospectus, " the bestselling book of its kind. He's written on sports for "The Miami Herald, Reason, The National Review, The Washington Monthly, " and "The Washington Times." Since 2002, he has also been a Baseball Operations Consultant to the San Diego Padres.