Baseball Hacks isn"t your typical baseball book--it"s a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It"s an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It"s a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it"s a how-to book--one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership deems most important. Managers make in-game decisions based not on instincts, but on probability - how a particular batter might fare against left-handed pitching, for instance. The goal of this unique book is to show fans all the baseball-related stuff that they can do for free (or close to free). Just as open source projects have made great software freely available, collaborative projects such as...