Slam Dunk: Basketball Poems

by Bill James (Illustrator ), Lillian Morrison (Compiler)

Contains basketball poems that capture everything from the hush of an important foul-shot to the explosion of a last-minute three-pointer.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton, Kansas) is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory).

In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He is currently a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. In 2010, Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James

Reviews

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is really cool! It has alot of interesting and extremely descriptive poems. It does have alot of poems about the same thing (shooting a basketball into a net), but it was also interesting to see different peoples poems. This also had some confusing words, but I used context clues to understand them.