Ladies and gentlemen, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2015 is now ready and waiting to be devoured. It is the 11th edition of the book. This year marks the end of an era, as Dave Studeman worked on the Annual for the final time this year.
As such, we really blew out the book this year — it checks in at 400 pages, which if you’re not familiar with the Annual, is 100 more pages than usual! The price, however, remains the same — $15.99. Or perhaps less depending on what point in time you purchase it from Amazon.
It is available now for purchase at Amazon, or direct from our independent publishing platform, Createspace. You can read a full breakdown of the table of contents in my post that went up a few minutes ago at THT Live.
This book is a labor of love for us every year, and for 11 years it has been Studes’ baby. We tried to make his last time around a special one, and we hope you’ll agree that it is. The book is full of posts from our great team here, including Dave Cameron, Jeff Sullivan, Eno Sarris, Carson Cistulli and Tony Blengino; old friends like Matthew Carruth and Steve Treder; and guests like Chris St. John, Alan Nathan and of course, sabermetric titans Craig Wright and Bill James.
We hope you enjoy it!!!
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will it be released on kindle
Yes, very soon.