The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves

A study of some of baseball's best & worst decisions, what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how they shaped the game.

"Law's take is as entertaining as it is informative. This intelligent and accessible work is a grand slam." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Baseball is a sport of decisions. Some are small and seemingly routine—what pitch to throw, when to pull a pitcher from a game—while others—when to trade the best prospects in baseball for a chance to win now, or when...