The Daily Beast offers some tips.
From the story...
Let’s say you’re a young baseball
beat writer itching to land a book contract. You cover a team that few
book editors in New York care about—the White Sox (not the Cubs) or the
Twins (no explanation necessary)—and have never fit in among the trendy
sabermetrics crowd. Ghostwriting is not your thing, and you find that
all the great dynasties have already been exhaustively dissected by
brand-name authors. What’s an ambitious writer to do?
Never
fear, there’s still a surefire path for securing a book deal. Simply
pick a year—any year, really—and make a case for why that baseball
season stands out from all others. Follow one of the templates below and
you’ll ink a deal in no time.
Declare Your Chosen Year the Best in Baseball History
Does
your chosen year include any combination of the following:
record-breaking performances, tight pennant races, controversy, a World
Series that went the distance, a slew of future Hall of Famers in their
prime? If so, then your year was not merely great; it was the best
ever—an assertion that you must trumpet in your book’s subtitle and
defend vigorously in the opening chapter. (You can drop it entirely
afterward.)
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