Favorite (Other) Tribe/Baseball Resources

"Three Nights In August" is a great baseball read.  While it is neither about the Tribe, nor AL baseball, it just shows you how much time, effort, energy, thought, planning, etc, go into a 3 game series.  It just gives you a sneak peak of all the intricacies we take for granted so often.  It's easy to be a "manager" for 3 hours every night in front of our TVs, but there is so much more.  Great for any baseball fan.

Hope this helps!

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I'd also be interested if you guys know of any good baseball books. I just started BP's "Baseball Between the Numbers" and am loving it so far.

We should get an LGT bookclub together.

I have always loved baseball, but never got into the internet side of it until this year.

Baseball-Reference is an awesome site, that has a clean layout and incredible amounts of statistical information.

It was incredible to go back in time and look at box scores of games I have been to in the 80's and 90's. Really brought back a lot of memories of players/teams I had forgotten about.

It's also cool to look at our minors system in the 90's and see how those guys stacked up to our current guys.

Baseball Reference is awesome.

Baseball Think Factory.

Fire Joe Morgan.

First Inning.

The Hardball Times.

Joe Posnanski has two blogs.  Here and here.

USS Mariner and Aaron Gleeman are my favorite non-Indians non-SB baseball blogs.

Books:
The Thinking Fans Guide to Baseball
Baseball Between the Numbers
The Baseball Economist

Oh, and MLB Trade Rumors is going to get a lot more interesting in about a week.

If you wouldn't mind paying money Baseball America is great.

BP's "Baseball Between the Numbers" is excellant as is "The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball" by Tango, Lichtman, and Dolphin.  The last book uses stats to analyze baseball strategy and questions some of the traditional methods of the game.  It's quite math/stats heavy but you can skim over some of those parts if that's not your thing and still understand the book.

Also, if you have ESPN Insider read everything by Rob Neyer.

This is somewhat likely to get deleted due to irrelevance or perhaps the scent of politics.

But in reading the Cavs thread, I was impressed by the intelligence and awareness simply oozing from even the youngest posters on this site.  Heck, GFP is a college lad with a grasp of geo-politics.  Awesome.

So if you're looking for thought-provoking reading, you've got to read Mark Morford.  Try this one first:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/10/24/notes102407.DTL

I'm not saying you should agree with this column, but it will certainly make you think.  And it will make you think, "Wow, LGT posters are in that three percent!"

Here's his archive.

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/archive/

The following won't make you thrilled about a former Tribe FO member who is GMing the Rockies.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=1196fe120f23159eb2965348c8f0cbcd0a7a32d0

Turk, I presume you've read "Dealing"

"The Book on the Book" was a little disapointing, though I don't remember why, just that it was - I read it a while ago.  I think it waffled too much.  I feel like at the end of every chapter, the conclusion was basically: "So maybe, maybe not".

The Diatribe is my only other Indians specific daily stop.

Oh man, FJM is amazing. I've spent the past hour reading through the archives...

For quick stats, I love firstinning.com. Has a lot of useful things, like BABIP, line drive %, GB:FG, etc.

Also! The Mind of Bill James. Loved reading it.

I really enjoyed The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics  by Alan Schwarz.

It describes the interplay of baseball rules and statistics and how they interplayed with each other to develop the game as it exists today.  Some interesting information about early baseball and a pretty quick read.