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Allen Barra
@AllenBarraWrite
Allen Barra writes for the Wall Street Journal, http://t.co/qNTcMZjdvo, The Daily Beast and http://t.co/iNAAZlt7nZ. He is the author of several books.
New Jersey Katılım Nisan 2011
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Can Joe Biden save the Yankees?
From the new Village Voice
Under President Biden, Will the Yankees Return to Their Winning Ways? | The Village Voice
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95th Anniversary of The Great American Novel
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Allen Barra retweetledi
And if a reader wanted to read just one of your books to get an idea of what you are doing, Andre, what book should he start with?
Andre Lower@baseballbyposit
@billjamesonline @JasonBernard_ My experience exactly. I've written 6 books covering 13 volumes and over 5,400 pages with nothing but pain and stress to show for it. Even so, I'm always working on the next book. Try as I might, my biggest challenge is getting anybody to pay any real attention to my work.
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How The South Won The Civil War
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@billjamesonline I don' t know if it's a Walter Matthau movie -- it's really a Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn movie -- but the best Matthau was in was Charade in 1963.
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Not a single person suggested that I should have included the one in which he played Einstein.
Bill James Online@billjamesonline
1) Cows can't get this disease, because they all have herd immunity. 2) What's the best Walter Matthau movie?
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I don' t know if it's a Walter Matthau movie -- it's really a Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn movie -- but the best Matthau was in was Charade in 1963.
Bill James Online@billjamesonline
Not a single person suggested that I should have included the one in which he played Einstein.
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In 1983 I met Muhammad Ali getting out of an elevator with his entourage at a press event. He walked right up to me and said Wanna see a magic trick? I emptied a packet of sugar into his hand and he made it all disappear. Still don't know how.
Charles P. Pierce@CharlesPPierce
Lady Bird Johnson kissed me on my cheek.
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Allen Barra retweetledi
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@waxpackbook Sure. My email is allenbarra@aol.com but at present my time is pretty much taken up with my daughter's illness. we're temporarily moved to Pennsylvania to treat her chronic Lyme Disease so I haven't been working much lately.
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@AllenBarraWrite Hey Allen, can you please DM me? I'd like to tell you about my book. Thanks.
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Here's a more recent I wrote in 2018 for Stadium Talk.
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sanford sklansky@sanford943
@AllenBarraWrite I don't remember what I tweeted. I think it was referring to something you wrote years ago. I think it had to with older quarterbacks in playoffs and their yds per attempt. Montana had at least one good game with KC where his yds per attempt was good.
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@MarkyBillson But no matter how often or how seldom you pass, it's efficiency that matters. BTW, If you're reading magazines that were printed thirty years ago, you've got a lot of catching up to do.
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@MarkyBillson Marky -- I haven't done a study in the last few years to bring this up to date, but everything suggests that the equation hasn't really changed at all essentially quarterbacks are taking rushing opportunities that used to go to the running backs. …
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@hcbeck
Hell are you? Drop me an email and bring me up to date.
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@CPodiumcafe Conversion rates? Every conversion rare I've seen says that the shorter you have to go, the better off you are.
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Give me 9 yards on first own and I'll take my chances on third.
Bill James Online@billjamesonline
Which is more important to a football team: what you do on first down, or what you do on third down?
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@sanford943 Sanford -- thanks for your tweet but I can't read anything after "Montana and …" Can you send the rest of your message?
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@AllenBarraWrite I read both the Football by the Numbers books. There was an article from last year on a Chiefs Blog pretty much using the yds per attempt that you have written about. Mahomes was the best, but of course they did not get to the superbowl. Amazingly Montana and
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@billjamesonline That's no excuse. Edward Gibbon wrote the first two vol of Decline and Fall with a Shetland pony in his lap.
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I may be on twitter all day. it's the only thing I can do with a puppy sleeping in my lap.
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