Reviews
"Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller have given us a brutally honest but blissfully funny look at where we really stand a decade into the 'analytics revolution.' If you want the insights that statheads and baseball traditionalists still need to learn from one another, start by reading this book."-- Nate Silver, bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise and the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight " The Only Rule Is It Has to Work is a terrific read, as Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller - two of baseball's leading sabermetric writers - put their beliefs on the line by taking over an actual team of actual players and trying to implement their unorthodox theories. The story of their season with the Sonoma Stompers is a fascinating human drama about the give-and-take between the new thinking and the old school."-- Ken Rosenthal, MLB on FOX reporter, FOXSports.com senior baseball writer, and MLB Network insider "In a phenomenal book that is a fun, breezy, and moving read, Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller invite us into their mad experiment. They show us the trials, travails, and challenges of running an independent league baseball team, and along the way they do something remarkable: they make us care deeply for the players who put their hearts into every point of on-base percentage."-- Jonah Keri, bestselling author of Up, Up, and Away and The Extra 2% " The Only Rule Is It Has to Work is the happy, improbable spawn of Moneyball and Bull Durham --a relentlessly smart and consistently funny journey into the dregs of the minors that proves one thing above all: No matter how many statistics you apply to baseball, you can never kill its heart."-- Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak , A Few Seconds of Panic , and Wild and Outside, " The Only Rule Is It Has to Work is the happy, improbable spawn of Moneyball and Bull Durham --a relentlessly smart and consistently funny journey into the dregs of the minors that proves one thing above all: No matter how many statistics you apply to baseball, you can never kill its heart."-- Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak , A Few Seconds of Panic , and Wild and Outside " The Only Rule Is It Has to Work is a terrific read, as Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller - two of baseball's leading sabermetric writers - put their beliefs on the line by taking over an actual team of actual players and trying to implement their unorthodox theories. The story of their season with the Sonoma Stompers is a fascinating human drama about the give-and-take between the new thinking and the old school."-- Ken Rosenthal , MLB on FOX reporter, FOXSports.com senior baseball writer, and MLB Network insider, " The Only Rule Is It Has to Work is a terrific read, as Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller - two of baseball's leading sabermetric writers - put their beliefs on the line by taking over an actual team of actual players and trying to implement their unorthodox theories. The story of their season with the Sonoma Stompers is a fascinating human drama about the give-and-take between the new thinking and the old school."-- Ken Rosenthal, MLB on FOX reporter, FOXSports.com senior baseball writer, and MLB Network insider "In a phenomenal book that is a fun, breezy, and moving read, Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller invite us into their mad experiment. They show us the trials, travails, and challenges of running an independent league baseball team, and along the way they do something remarkable: they make us care deeply for the players who put their hearts into every point of on-base percentage."-- Jonah Keri, bestselling author of Up, Up, and Away and The Extra 2% " The Only Rule Is It Has to Work is the happy, improbable spawn of Moneyball and Bull Durham --a relentlessly smart and consistently funny journey into the dregs of the minors that proves one thing above all: No matter how many statistics you apply to baseball, you can never kill its heart."-- Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak , A Few Seconds of Panic , and Wild and Outside
