Join us for the monthly group meeting of the New York chapter of Society of American Baseball Research (SABR). The group meets the second Saturday of each month. All baseball fans are welcome!

This month's lineup:

Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts
Baseball Prospectus 2006

Rob Trucks
The Shortstop
Baseball Behind the Seams

Packed with statistics, analysis, and attitude, Baseball Prospectus is the essential guide for the 3.4 million serious fantasy baseball players, and the perfect season-long companion for the millions more fans who are looking to understand the inside game. Includes extensive performance analysis of 1,600 players—covering the majors, the minors, top 40 prospects, draft choices, and rookie ball—plus in-depth,insightful essays on all 30 major league clubs and gimlet-eyed evaluations of their top 50 players. With ballpark-adjusted stats, a deadly accurate projection system for forecasting a player's performance, and more, Baseball Prospectus tells the real story of what happened on the field in 2005 and what it means for 2006..

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts on Baseball Talent includes, among others, Gary Huckabay, the founder of Baseball Prospectus; Chris Kahrl, a sports editor who lives in Washington, D.C.; and Dave Pease, who roots for Ryan Klesko in San Diego. Together, the roster of Baseball Prospectus writers consult to 26 of the 30 major league baseball teams.

Rob Trucks brings the same level of insight and thorough research to this new book in the popular Baseball Behind the Seams series that he brought to The Catcher and The Starting Pitcher. Trucks close examination of how the pros play shortstop explores how the position has evolved through the years and decades, from Honus Wagner to Derek Jeter. Readers will spend a day in the life of Jose Valentin, walk down memory lane with Trucks as he pays tribute to the shortstops of his youth, and find out what it takes, both physically and mentally, to be a shortstop — the most important defensive position on the baseball field.

The Shortstop includes interviews with top shortstops past and present, including Jimmy Rollins, Khalil Greene, Desi Relaford, Larry Bowa, Roger Metzger, Alex Grammas, Eddie O'Brien, Jack Kubiszyn, and many others.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rob Trucks is the author of The Catcher and The Starting Pitcher, bothin the Baseball Behind the Seams series, Cup of Coffee: The Very Short Careers of 18 Major League Pitchers (Smallmouth Press) which was a Book Sense 76 pick, and The Pleasure of Influence (Purdue University Press). Born on Roberto Clemente's 27th birthday, Trucks writes about books, music and baseball for Spin, BookForum, Newsweek.com and many of the top alternative newspapers across the country. He lives in a closet-sized apartment in Long Island City, New York.

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