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Issue
30
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April
4 - 10, 2001
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Volume
1
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page
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Three Helpful Resources
for Betting Baseball 2001
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For
keeping track of team performance, The Workbook for the Baseball
Handicapper, edited by Jim Plataniotis (180 pages, 8x11, plastic
spiralbound, $29.95 is right on target. He took a simple and direct
approach: compile the schedule for each major league team, show
which games are at home, which are away, where they play and on
what date. The book allows anyone betting baseball to record, day
by day, the line, total, score, over-under, who the starting pitchers
were, number of walks, strikeouts, earned runs, hits and innings
pitched. It leaves several open spots in case a game is rained out
and rescheduled later in the season on an open date or as part of
a double header. 
Kelly
Romaniuk's Starting Pitchers' Chronicle 2001 (168 pages,
paperbound, 5x8, $19.95) has each starting pitcher listed by team
(some pitchers are listed on more than one team and in both leagues),
followed by such stats as the date the pitcher performed, whether
he won or lost and who the opposing pitcher was. It then moves to
the number of innings pitched, hits allowed, runs and earned runs
allowed, walks, strikeouts and number of pitches to strikes, the
final score, the daily betting line and the over-under results for
each game. (It's a rare instance when Greg Maddux is not a betting
favorite, but you'll be able to spot when it happened last year).
This book should save any bettor much time when noting whether the
number of days between starts or the number of pitches had any correlation
to winning or losing and should give the user plenty of other kind
of information to ponder. 
One
title that seems to intellectually stimulate both bettors and fans
each year is Stats Baseball Scoreboard. This 2001 edition
(306 pages, paperbound, $19.95) contains fascinating essays, potential
betting angles, trivia, statistical analysis and things to look
forward to this season, from pitchers to batters to base stealers.
For example, the editors (Don Zminda and Tony Nistler) question
whether the Mets are best served by the injury-prone Mike 
