I'm hoping you'll give me feedback on the idea of Rip footnotes. Personally, I love footnotes, and since a lot of the material I footnoted was page-length information on the web, I think there are some advantages for readers in being able to click on those references and go directly there rather than have to type URLs into their browser.
It's a bold experiment. At least three people I trust think it's not good. If you bought or borrowed the book, though, I'd like to hear what you think. ¿Good? ¿Useless? ¿Crunchewy? And if you can think of a better way to include as footnote material very detailed information such as a player's year-by-year career lines, please let me know. Had I done this the traditional way, the footnotes I referenced for this book would have been only a few pages shorter than the text of the book itself.
1 http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/beckro01.shtml
2 http://www.baseball-reference.com/games/standings.cgi?date=2003-06-02
3 http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wellsda01.shtml
4 http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/canepa/20040101-9999_1s1canepa.html
5 http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
6 http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter4/sec1.html+sociopathy+definition
8 http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~6295~1820752,00.html
9 http://www.baseball-reference.com/v/vazquja01.shtml
10 http://www.yesnetwork.com/team/index.cfm?cont_id=218894&page_type=wide
11 http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~6295~1820752,00.html
12 http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/sbn/sbn04team2.htm
13 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/2001.shtml
14 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CAL/1995.shtml
15 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1998.shtml
16 http://www.nypost.com/sports/22011.htm
17 Quaquaversally: to spread out in all directions at the same time.
18 http://www.cio.com/archive/091503/reality.html
19 http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/663/
20 http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/ramirma02.shtml
21 http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bocachi01.shtml
22 http://www.informationweek.com/673/73olkn2.htm
23 http://www.informationweek.com/673/73olkno.htm
24 Isn't it amazing that even if he's just backing up someone who plays a completely different kind of music, you can always pick him out? I've been trying to master just one of his leads for over two years now, and I'm still trying to figure out a few of the transitions which seem to defy the limits of five fingers and a low-end Fender.
25 http://bigleaguers.yahoo.com/
26 WHIP is Walks + Hits per Inning Pitched. anything under 1.3 is good, and anything under 1.0 is totally superb.
27 BAA is Batting Average Against.
28 http://www.sethspeaks.net/092004.htm
29 http://www.aarongleeman.com/
31 http://www.tompeters.com/slides/uploaded/HRcom102604.ppt
32 http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hollida01.shtml
33 http://www.baseballwise.com/club/mlbscoutbureau.html
34 http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/mcgrajo01.shtml
35 http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/mackco01.shtml
37 http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/bakerdu01.shtml
38 http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/splits?statsId=4143&type=pitching&year=2004
39 http://sctvguide.ca/episodes/sctv_s1.htm#Show_20
40 http://www.bigleaguers.yahoo.com/mlb/players/4/4906
41 http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/splits?statsId=6498&type=pitching&year=2004
42 http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0020306652-0
43 http://www.baseball-reference.com/n/niekrph01.shtml
44 http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=45767
46 http://www.freep.com/sports/tigers/bbcol29_20030829.htm
47 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYM/1962.shtml
48 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/
49 http://astros.mostvaluablenetwork.com/
50 http://baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/
51 http://noslenblog.blogspot.com/
52 http://www.all-baseball.com/marinermusings/
53 http://sodoohno.blogspot.com/
54 http://grandsalami.blogspot.com/
55 http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/gamelog?statsId=6615
56 http://cmdr-scott.blogspot.com/2004/09/part-ithe-brewers-bucs-astros-ichiro.html
57 http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sislege01.shtml
58 http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/H_season.shtml
59 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SLB/1920.shtml
60 http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/martied01.shtml
61 A lot of smart people ask me why Third Base and Second Base are different. To them “emotional intelligence” is the main ingredient in both. When I started, I thought that, too, but experience proved this particular morsel of common sense fell short of truth. As most hitters will study the video of opposing pitchers but not mine it thoroughly to dissect their own actions, half of all non-baseball managers with emotional intelligence aren’t able to apply useful knowledge about that to their own motivations and actions. Astute, sympathetic observation and cold retrospection are not the same ability, nor are they co-factors.
63 http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1570614318-0
64 http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/mckeoja99.shtml
65 http://www.bigbadbaseball.com/archives/
66 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/FLA/2003.shtml
68 http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/busbyst01.shtml
69 James, Bill, “The Bill James Guide To Baseball Managers From 1870 To Today”, Scribner, New York, 1997, page 147
70 http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/schaapa01.shtml
71 http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/torboje01.shtml
72 http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cabremi01.shtml
73 http://www.serac.net/tahoma.htm
74 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042369/
75 Baseball Primer is THE place on the internet
for diverse news item postings and subsequent conversations.
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primer/
MLB Center is a more structured and polite forum with
excellent participants, but fewer of them.
http://forums.mlbcenter.com
76 http://www.baseballprimer.com/articles/emeigh_2004-03-14_0.shtml
77 http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wilsocr03.shtml
78 http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcclell01.shtml
79 http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcclell01.shtml
80 http://merlin2.alleg.edu/employee/c/csherman/cordic/ofc/ofcc002.jpg
81 http://merlin2.alleg.edu/employee/c/csherman/cordic/ofs/oldefrothingsloshstory01.htm
82 http://www.culture.gr/2/20/melina.html
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http://cinema-magazine.com/old_page/kako/starpage/star26.htm
83 http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=63-0786865687-12
84 http://www.yesnetwork.com/yankees/news.asp?news_id=107&print=yes
85 http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/torrejo01.shtml
86 http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bergebi01.shtml
87 http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bergmo01.shtml
88 http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cirilje01.shtml
89 http://bigleaguers.yahoo.com/mlbpa/players/6550/
90 From Public Citizen:
The Ford Pinto was affordable, gas efficient, and stylistically pleasing-- but lacked one essential element: safety. Ford discovered fatal design flaws in the gas tank during a routine crash test performed right before production of the Pinto was to begin. Ford’s crash tests revealed that several design defects in the fuel tank and rear structure exposed consumers to serious injury or death in 20-30 mile-per-hour collisions. In April 1971, shortly before the 1972 Pinto was placed on the market, Ford’s vice president of car engineering, Harold MacDonald, chaired a product review meeting to discuss a report that had been prepared by Ford engineers. This report recommended deferring, from 1974 to 1976, the incorporation into all Ford cars, including the Pinto, of either a shock absorbent "flak suit" to protect the fuel tank at a cost of $4 per car, or a nylon bladder within the tank at a cost of $5.25 to $8 per car.
This deferral would allow Ford to realize a savings of $10.9 million. Ford’s management knew that the gas tank created a significant risk of death or injury from fire but decided to go forward and begin manufacturing the new Pinto anyway, knowing that these "fixes" were feasible at nominal cost.
That same year, in April 1971, Lee Iaccoca and Henry Ford met with President Richard Nixon. A Watergate tape reveals they asked him to not issue an upgrade to the fuel tank standard that was being considered. NHTSA didn’t issue it until 1974, and only under threat from Congress. The new standard required a 30 mph test in the rear (the original test applied only to the front) and took effect in 1977.
Ford’s 1971-1976 Pintos complied with the old minimal federal standard and had to be redesigned to meet the new one. Nevertheless, in June 1978, Ford recalled all 1.4 million 1971 through 1976 Pintos for fuel system modification, after it was required to do so by NHTSA. By the time of the recall, however, Pinto fuel-fed fires had killed at least 27 people and injured many others. It was a lawsuit – in which an enraged jury awarded a $125 million punitive damage award (rates reduced to $3.5 million) for Ford’s knowing refusal to protect occupants from fires – that had brought the problem to the attention of DOT.
During the same time Ford made the Pinto in the U.S., it manufactured the Capri in Europe – a vehicle of similar size. But the Capri was designed to pass a higher level of protection in Europe. Its gas tank was located above the rear axle years before the new U.S. standard took effect in 1977 that forced Ford to redesign the Pinto.”
91 http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,144737,00.html
92 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-speedup&prov=ap&type=lgns
93 http://reds.enquirer.com/2003/10/05/wwwred1a.html
94 http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0899191029-0
95 Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought (from Wikipedia). In anthropology, it has been cited most as the what happens when a subject people tries to maintain their religious tradition while being forced to adopt a conqueror’s religion. They do this by taking the outer, obvious trappings and symbols of the conqueror’s faith while infusing those artifacts with content from their own religion. This was fairly common in Southwest Native American populations forced to practice Christianity by the Spanish and then Americans. Syncretism is also practiced by conquerors in an effort to get leverage from the conquered’s rites, such as making November 1st All Saints’ Day to get leverage off Druidic celebrations on the previous night.
96 http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mesajo01.shtml
97 http://www.lii.net/deming.html
98 http://www.localcolorart.com/search/encyclopedia/E_ticket
99 http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/neyer_rob/1595730.html
100 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086637/
101 http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2000/0300eitzen.html
102 http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/willima04.shtml
103 http://premium.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2310
104 http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/ponsosi01.shtml
105 http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/aloufe01.shtml
