Hard to read and track all of the players, ...
582837
Hard to read and track all of the players, but I am not as young as I used to be.. Most revealing. If it were not true, the Clinton's would have sued him by now. Well documented.
1154285
Nice to see several of the players from another viewpoint.  Rollercoaster action and so much was not as it appeared.
783620
The downside: only 30 positions.

The upside: every position is from a real game. Every position is hard. This is a good book for 1600 up to at least 2200 (probably more, as most of the players on both sides are GMs). I sure enjoyed my first reading and I have to read it again!

Formatting is good. A few analyses are too long for the solution to fit on one page on my Kindle 4 (the model just before the Kindle Paperwhite), hampering readability.
4509230
Overall I liked this Tom Clancy book, but I often had a difficult time keeping track of who the characters were.
3261338
Like nearly all games to come from the ASB line of late, this game is nice, but not without its flaws.  Generally, the developers didn't put too much effort into the presentation in the way that there is a wealth of menus you must navigate to get to where you want to get, and the background is never-changing, with a uniform font.  It is nowhere as easy to decipher as games from EA Sports and 989 Sports.  However, there are high points to this game.  The animation and graphics are miles above competition.  I'm sure you're waiting on the edge of your seat for me to mention Franchise Mode.  Yes, it is present.  No, it is neither perfected nor polished.  No Amateur Draft.  Confusing Menus.  Standings and Stats get fu...uhh...messed up upon post season entry, and the schedule is extremely hard to navigate.  Another huge irk I have would be the lack of isolated instatant replay, the only instant reply is automatically initiated after each play at a set speed from a set camera.  Finally, the controls are unorthodox and frustrating.  However, my review is based solely upon this perticular game and therefore I have no recommendations in regard to purchasing High Heat, Triple Play, HomeRun King, or World Series Baseball if you are looking for a reccomendation.  Sorry if this game got your hopes up - its not worth it.
1350180
A bit too hard to follow at times and it skips parts of the game so you have to look at the picture they have and find the words that match it.
3462358
This strategy guide is average as although it covers a lot of material, it also leaves out a lot of things.
The enemy index that supposedly lists all enemies in the game leaves out quite a few, and many parts of maps only have descriptions with NO picture to go along with them, making secret boxes hard to find.
1656127
If you like history, particularly as it relates to WWII you will like this book. A little hard to sometimes keep track of all the players.
1239963
Ive been purchasing Steeles magazine since 2007.  I purchased the 2015 edition but have grown tired of it.  I have three major complaints about the magazine.

First, even though the magazine brags about being crammed with information, there really isn't much information about the forthcoming season.  For his team predictions, Steele gives a long, rambling historical summary (sometimes dating back decades), and then he writes one or two sentences about the upcoming season, usually something generic like, Despite returning only 7 starters, I look for this team to top last years 8 wins.  Two of my nine indexes call for at least nine wins.  Check to see if they made my most improved list!  If you were to reduce the magazine to information concerning the upcoming season, it would be a mere leaflet.

Second, the magazine brags incessantly about correct picks in the past.  Every page has some cheesy, self-congratulatory statement along the lines of, In 1996, I was the only writer who picked the Florida Gators to win it all!  However, having purchased the magazine for seven complete seasons now, the magazine, in my opinion, has had some absolutely terrible picks and predictions that it conveniently fails to mention.  Rather than cherrypicking good predictions while ignoring past failures, the magazine should have a chart at the beginning showing you where Steele ranked each team in his preseason Top 25 and where the team actually finished in the Top 25.

Third, in my opinion, the magazine is too optimistic overall.  It seems to me that Steele predicts the majority of teams to match their prior record or improve (I haven't actually sat down and tallied up the numbers, but thats my general sense).  However, each year, its a statistic fact that half of all teams will finish in the bottom half of their conferences.  Almost anyone could write a magazine in which they overpick a large group of teams to improve, sit back and watch as a few of those teams actually improve, and then brag incessantly the following year about those few picks.

Next year, I think Ill take about 15 minutes at my local bookstore to read some of Steeles one or two sentence predictions for the upcoming season rather than shelling out money to read about a teams road loses in 2002 or what a clairvoyant Steele was to pick Washington in 1991.
1914274
In a book that is mildly disappointing, the author -- a knowledgeable coach with years of experience -- attempts to compile a "complete book of baseball signs and plays."  The result is a text that alternates between an insider's perspective of the game and a number of chapters that are repetitive or seem out of place.
It's not clear who the book is written for: serious fans and coaches at any level will already be familiar with all but the most unusual strategies described, while casual fans may not find the repetitive descriptions and diagrams all that engaging.  The author begins by providing some historical background to the origin of signs and plays that most readers will find informative.  Then he moves on to break down offensive signs and plays to a degree that is almost unncessary (e.g., listing all possible base-running situations -- "nobody on, man on first, man on second...").  The author provides a nice summary of the types of signals (flash, holding, block, etc.), but leaves one with the false impression that all possible signals have been described (e.g., "folding the arms: delayed steal"). In the same chapter, he also includes a number of strategies that teams can use to produce more offense, and then lists almost seven pages of "points to remember as base coaches... duites of base coaches...," once again leaving the reader wondering about the central purpose of the book.  Consequently, the bulk of this second chapter is probably of most value to little league and high school coaches with limited experience.
The longest chapter, "Defensive Plays and Signs," details over 50 plays with separate charts that illustrate the positioning and movement of defensive players, but again, this section may tax the patience of readers who are not serious students of the game.
Chapter Four is one section that strikes me as a bit odd to include in this text: "Umpires' Calls and Signs" gives us an interesting window into the "third team" (p. 250) on the field, but it takes the reader some time to wade through all 77 situations that describe and illustrate how umpires position themselves for plays and how they communicate verbally and nonverbally with players, coaches, and each other.  Again, coaches, players, and serious fans will be well versed in the bulk of the chapter's content, while casual readers may find this section of the text too involved and repetitive.
The book ends with two short chapters, an intriguing section on stealing signs, and a collection of humorous anecdotes that the author witnessed -- entertaining, to be sure, but one gets the impression that the closing chapter is an unncessary add-on.
"The Complete Book of Baseball Signs and Plays" is written in a fairly clear, albeit repetitve, style, and the diagrams do attempt to clarify the various complex situations.  Its strength lies in its organization, while it is somewhat lacking in overall content.  This book will be most valuable to little league and high school coaches as a reference tool that attempts to summarize a wide range of offensive and defensive plays.
2798117
Hard to keep track of what is going on.  Helps to read the screenplay and see the movie.  Fans of Harry may be disappointed, especially by lack of appealing characters.
2844305
Hard to follow the way it was written; a lot of information, but hard to picture as you were reading it. So many artists and stars involved, it could have elaborated more on them as well.
1772551
A lot of this book is about knowing your opponent.  Gee, what a surprise! Unfortunately for a lot of part time players it's almost impossible to get to know another player's tendencies unless playing them more than once. So, not as useful a book as I was hoping for. But for $5, what can you expect...
4223467
Good stuff for Fantasy baseballers and for just plain fans who follow individual players and stats.  I really enjoy Nate Silver's work here and on his political website fivethirtyeight.com  His numbers help temper your "can't miss" expectations with down-to-earth statistics.  My only quibble with this book so far is that the players are arranged in it by the team with which they ended last season.  This makes it hard to compare third-basemen, for instance, because you have to look at every team's pages and then dig to find some guys who are not listed where you are now expecting them to be. The intro tells you this and mentions an "index" of players that will help you find these players, but my copy of the book seems to be missing that index.
3744399
This book is a great read especially the extensive footnotes and tangents the author goes off on. Has some mistakes though. Rick Barry did not go to USF ( he went to Miami). In his statistical analysis under each player in his Hall of Fame "pyramid" he states for both W. Unseld and Elvin Hayes that they were the 2nd best player on the 78 Championship Bullets team. Who was first? Mitch Kupchak? Under the analysis text for John Stockton he never mentions his defense other than the "cheap shots" he gave, etc. This for the all time leader in steals? I did like his analysis on the players who favor the fall away jump shot and how that hurts their rebounding and ultimately their teams (maybe LaMarcus Aldridge will read this). While he is too young to have seen a lot of the players he rates, he does a pretty good job analyzing their games. Definitely a book for the serious basketball fan especially if you like all the tidbits about the players, fans , coaches etc. that aren't strictly basketball stuff.
1108625
It gave everything you could possibly want to know about the details of the game but it was extremely hard to read because of the print size and is poorly organized. The book didn't explain the flow of the story at all.
535677
I was quite excited about this book, having read and loved the famous tome by Ritter that is a classic. I anticipated this would be the same but with the players I grew up with. Unfortunately, I only paid attention to the other reviews that stated this was a book like Ritter's. I did not heed the words of those who told of how choppy and unreadable this is. It seems like Vincent (who I highly respect) simply put these players in a room with a tape recorded, had them chat about their career, and then simply word for word transcribed those stories into print....without editing. It makes for a not pleasant read, further made irritating because the players and the stories they share SHOULD  have been fascinating. Again, I am delighted that Vincent had the idea to capture the memories of these terrific players (as, I believe, he has done in two other books), but on the page it is just a rolling stream of thought, not a sting of stories to grab the heart.