Joe Morgan

The author wrote a book, Moneyball, that drove baseball's clubby traditionalists crazy. They fought back. Now he does too

Some minds are steel traps. My mind is a lint trap, retaining only useless fluff, so that I know why .406 is important, but not why 1066 is. If you were to remove, with a flourish, the top of my head—like the silver...

After a season of tinkering, ESPN's K-Zone was in postseason form on last week's Sunday Night Baseball. K-Zone, a box that outlines a batter's strike zone, was used to masterly effect by analyst Joe Morgan to...

A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery WardBy Bryan Di SalvatorePantheon Books, $27.50

Who'da thunk Cincinnati's Big Red Machine was really a printing press? Hot on the heels of last year's Baseball for Dummies, by Joe Morgan, comes Johnny Bench's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baseball. What's next,...