Outstanding. -- John Thorn, author & Official Historian of Major League Baseball on Outsider Baseball Bulletin
There's a Damon Runyan quality to Simkus' muse. -- Dave Hoekstra, Chicago Sun-Times on Outsider Baseball Bulletin
Amazing. -- John Holway, author/historian on Outsider Baseball Bulletin
Reading the OBB is like having a vivid, joyous dream about discovering a lost treasure chest, then waking up with gold coins in your hands. -- Josh Wilker, author, Cardboard Gods on Outsider Baseball Bulletin
This is the best baseball book you will read this year. With Outsider Baseball , Scott Simkus provides us with a time traveler's guide to the dark side of the moon--and rattles off weird and wonderful stories at every stop. I learned plenty; you will too. --John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden
A must-read for anyone with more than a passing interest in the national pastime. This careful, provocative examination of baseball's history and mystery challenges much of the conventional wisdom surrounding the sport, forcing us to see the game in a different light. --Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times
Simkus is at his best when presenting the wild and wacky leagues and players. He respects the game and its statistics, but he also strikes a balance with his breezy prose that number geeks and casual fans should find appealing. -- The Tampa Tribune
...the amount of research he's done--not to mention his number-crunching--is heroic. Just for that, Outisder Basebell deserves to be read by every baseball history junkie. --ChicagoReader.com
Scott has amazing things to reveal to us about the game we love--a game we thought we were pretty knowledgable about, until now...Simkus' book is a major step in rediscovering the talents and accomplishments of an entire class of ball players ignored and forgotten until now. This book will inspire further histories and fuel many a Hot Stove League debate. Outside Baseball is a great story, a collection of amazing, previously unknown statistics, and a first peak at a whole new universe of baseball. --Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine
This book is a total joy to read, and is breezy despite the focu on stats. Simkus clearly loves his subject and it shows. If you have any interest in old-time baseball at all, run, don't walk, to get this book... --The Book Stew
The obsessive author takes you into the world of semipro teams, independent clubs, minor league sides and barnstorming outfits. Think you know the history of the game? Simkus will open your eyes to whole new worlds. -- Newsday
