The Week contest: Baseball book - April 15, 2011
It's baseball season again — baseball book season, that is. Predict the name of the next baseball book to focus on some very obscure aspect of the sport or its history

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.
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Results: The start of baseball season has brought the usual flood of books on the glories of the national pastime. Please give us the name of a book that might focus on some obscure aspect of the sport.
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