The Sonoma Stompers : opening day roster -- Not joking at all -- Sonoma dreaming -- Modern baseball -- Tryouts -- Spreadsheet guys -- No feel -- Taking the field -- Technical difficulties -- Breaking barriers -- Fehball -- Pulling the trigger -- Evidences -- Sands of time -- Burn the ships -- It is high, it is far ... -- The Sonoma Stompers : final team statistics

"It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies-- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That's what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it Has to Work is unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read"--