Oddities and ironies, reflections and projections about baseball's past/present/future featuring the 2024-2025 major league seasons and beyond, Written exclusively by members of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America, the thirty-five articles and eleven lists of timeless trivia in this new baseball annual are designed to give the real fan some interesting things to think about. For example: Do More Stolen Bases Assure Winning Baseball? A Mets Fan Gets Her First Taste of Phillies Park, Perfect-Game Pitcher Is Impossible These Days, First Walkoff Pitch-Clock Violation Won't Be the Last, What Are the Chances of a Fourth-Generation Player? The True Origins of Baseball Card Collecting, Five No.1 Draft Picks Who Didn't Live Up to the Hype, 2025 Fantasy-Draft Picks for Casual Fans, The Changing Nature of Baseball Contracts, How Angel Stadium Brought Father and Daughter Together, Can Aaron Judge Reach 500 Home Runs? What Willie Really Left Behind, Today's MLB Players Don't Bunt, Why Ohtani's Deal Is Terrible for Baseball, Baseball after Bill James, Stuck Below the Mendoza Line, Ode to the Triple, Players Betting on Their Own Teams, The Rites of Spring, Yogi's Purple Heart That Never Was, Origins of Baseball-Card Collecting, The Infinity ERA Club, What's in a Team's Name?.