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
![A sure as that first pitch of opening season, the annual deluge of new baseball books see the light of day.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QRVTEd7tSwrp5fWAsP6E7D-415-80.jpg)
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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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