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In a Box: The NBA MVP Award

3rd March 2009

My favorite contemporary writer, the incomparable Bill James, has used an "in a box" format in several of his books. Basically what James does is choose a topic (e.g., a manager) and then makes an idiosyncratic list of the topic's defining features. I think the concept works well for a blog post, so today I would like to introduce the first of our "In a Box" series...

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