AMONG STEPHEN JAY GOULD's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about the interface between his two great passions: baseball and biology. Through the years, the renowned paleontologist published numerous essays on the sport; these have now been collected in a volume ali…
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Smart, aggressive baserunning will change a game, a series, and even a season. It sets the philosophy and mind-set of the coaches, trainers, and players. It becomes instinctual and contagious. It translates to pressure and, most important, wins.Baserunning is the most complete a…
"This work focuses on the baseball movie genre in the years following World War II, beginning with the 1948 biopic The Babe Ruth Story and ending with the 1962 Mickey Mantle-Roger Maris vehicle Safe at Home!, when consensus was that conflict should be limited in American society…
Preface Baseball has always had a fascination with statistics. Schwarz (2005) docu- ments the quantitative measurements of teams and players since the begin- ning of professional baseball history in the 19th century. Since the foundation of the Society of Baseball Research in 19…
The Baseball Datasets Introduction The Lahman Database: Season-by-Season DataRetrosheet Game-by-Game DataRetrosheet Play-by-Play Data Pitch-by-Pitch DataIntroduction to R Introduction Installing R and RStudio VectorsObjects and Containers in R Collection of R Commands Reading an…
"Preface Baseball has always had a fascination with statistics. Schwarz (2005) documents the quantitative measurements of teams and players since the beginning of professional baseball history in the 19th century. Since the foundation of the Society of Baseball Research in 1971,…
First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric revolution by demonstrating that we were thinking about baseball stats--and thus the game itself--all wrong. This brand-new edition retains the body of the original, with its rich, accessible analysi…
Long before "Moneyball" became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, "The Hidden Game of Baseball" ushered in the…
An ex-Wall Street trader improved on "Moneyball's" famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games--with a 41 percent return in his first year. "Trading Bases" explains how he did it