Reddit mentions of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team [Includes a New Afterword]

https://www.amazon.com/Only-Rule-Has-Work-Experiment/dp/1250130905

I was mostly just giving you a hard time. It's a silly article, but, yeah, Miller is super rad. Would recommend his (and former Effectively Wild co-host Ben Lindbergh's) book to anyone that likes baseball analytics and fun.

His book, The Only Rule Is It Has To Work, about trying to run a minor league team using sabermetrics is good ( and genuinely funny) as well.

"The Only Rule Is It Has to Work" is a pretty interesting look into the inner workings of the Independent league and a good audiobook for the car.

Here are a few books that I really enjoyed. The first couple are stats-oriented, while the third is more narrative-driven.

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball by John Feinstein

Search through the sub for old Book recommendations for more info.

Ones that immediately come to mind:

• Moneyball - Technically about the 2002 Oakland Athletics but gets into more than that.
  
• Best Team Money Can Buy - About the 2014~ Dodgers.
  
• Tony la Russa's book
  
• Lindbergh and Miller's book
  
  If you look through older posts there are dozens of other recs.
  
  Final personal one isn't about MLB, but about softball in New York. Link Here
  
  Old professor in college wrote it, thought it was pretty unique.

I'd start by watching Ken Burns Baseball documentary.

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As far as books, Moneyball is good, and The Only Rule is it Has to Work for an in depth look at how stats affect the game.