Mini-reviews starting to go up

It’s a really nice feeling to have an idea and see it work out as well as you’d hoped.

This summer I had a notion to promote my book. Take the 89 managers profiled in my book, and organize them by teams and create new Word docs for them. If a manager worked for more than one team, he’d go in the file for all those teams.

Then, offer those team-based servings to as many team bloggers I could find contact info for. Ask them to read it, and essentially give a mini-book review to their readers of what they thought of my work. The goal was to provide exposure/awareness/interest for it. McFarland OKd it provided I only sent it to bloggers.

Well, I finished sending out the emails (unless I can figure out a few more). As of now, 106 different blogs have expressed some interest in it, including at least one blog for every team.

And the first few are going online.

The first one up was Viva El Birdos. Dan at V.E.B. says the book is: "the first satisfying answer I've yet seen to one of the most frustrating questions left in our understanding of baseball" (namely the study of managers).

Second, Goat Riders of the Apocalypse raved about it, stating at the outset that: "Chris Jaffe’s "Evaluating Baseball's Managers, 1876-2008" will do for big league managers what “Bill James’ Baseball Handbook” has done for big league players."