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Title: Too preachy
Review: The author, Allen Barra, is a stats geek. Which means he spends page after page (after page after page...) cherry-picking different formulas to prove that he is right and you are wrong. You think Mays was better than Mantle? NO, YOU'RE WRONG! You think Gibson was better than Marichal? SORRY, YOU ARE WRONG!! And so on and so forth.Why can't these guys ever just admit that they don't know the answer to the questions they pose? Just once I wish Barra would have said, "To be honest, I have no idea who was better, Mays or Mantle." Because the truth is, Allen Barra has no idea who was better, Mays or Mantle.Anyway, this has all been done before (better, if just as annoyingly) by Bill James. At least James has a sense of humor and a light touch around the typewriter. Barra comes off sounding like a nagging spouse.
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