Game According to Syd: The Theories and Teachings of Baseball's Leading Innovator

Thrift, a former scout, scouting director and general manager with Kansas City, Oakland, Pittsburgh and the Yankees, offers advice and opinions on playing and managing baseball. ``The average fan will find the first half of the book too technical, but when the authors get down to such aspects of the general manager's job as making trades, it is absorbing,'' claimed PW. (Jan.)