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Gee, thanks Heltonfan for giving us a link to a book that's only available "used" for $40 at Amazon.
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Heh... I don't even own that book myself. And it's more of a historical curiosity than anything else, at this point. I just couldn't think of anything else that constitutes anything close to a seminal document in the sort of number-crunching that I do (nor, for that matter, do I even view something like OPS as "number-crunching" at all... but it is a pretty good starting point).
These sorts of threads always make me somewhat uncomfortable, because as a practitioner rather than a consumer, it's tough to speak for the field of sabermetrics as a whole (nor do I think I would want to, even if I could). Perhaps I should write up a brief summary of my own interpretation of sabermetric theory.
Oh, and in response to HoyaRoxFan: I'm not aware of any source for box scores from intrasquad games. They're not official games, so I'm guessing that MLB doesn't do any stat-keeping at all for them.