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Title: A Daring Look at some longstanding questions
Review: Allen Barra deserves credit for taking a look at baseball's hard questions and making some unconventional stands on the issues. Barra's evaluation of Babe Ruth is particularly interesting and has already created the biggest stir. Yet, Barra uses statistics every step of the way to illustrate his points. In the end, Barra succeeds at what any book of this type aims to acomplish: he forces you to think. In order to disagree with his assertions, you must return with evidence to support your position. In a world where so many fans and sportswriters shoot from the hip with little understanding of what statistics are important and which are trivial, Barra's use of statistics is mostly credible and well-thought out.
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