Author Archives: Don Glickstein

About Don Glickstein

Don Glickstein is a former newspaper journalist and political press secretary. He’s the author of After Yorktown, a history of the nearly three years of fighting that occured, well, after Yorktown. Read more about him at DonGlickstein.com

Stories over stats: A simple approach to chaos-resistant investing

By Don Glickstein

I love baseball and personal finance, but I barely understand baseball’s sabermetrics and finance analytics. I want a good story.

The stat guys despise the Tampa Bay Rays’ Chandler Simpson because he only has a single tool: speed. The one home run he’s hit in his entire career was inside the park. This is a guy who can barely hit a ball out of the infield. I love him because he’s a Continue reading →