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"A collection of case studies and exercises applying statistical and probabilistic thinking to the game of baseball. Baseball is the most statistical of all sports, since players are identified and evaluated by their hitting and pitching statistics. There is an active effort by …
"The reader learns of Joe E. Brown's childhood and how it prepared him for later screen roles, and how his love of baseball translated into screen successes. His career in vaudeville, his work as a Broadway comedian, his road to movie stardom, and how he parlayed his love of spo…
"The reader learns of Joe E. Brown's childhood and how it prepared him for later screen roles, and how his love of baseball translated into screen successes. His career in vaudeville, his work as a Broadway comedian, his road to movie stardom, and how he parlayed his love of spo…
The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball's endless possibility-the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record. Covering a selectio…
"The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball's endless possibility--the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record. Covering a select…
"A collection of graphs will be used to explore the game of baseball. Graphical displays will be used to show how measures of batting and pitching performance have changed over time, to explore the career trajectories of players, to undiferstand the importance of the pitch count…
Baseball has long been considered the great American game, but times have changed. The game now reverberates across the globe. Particularly noteworthy is how baseball has taken hold in Asia. While maintaining the essence of the game, a wide range of Asian cultures have embraced …
Baseball has long been considered the great American game, but times have changed. The game now reverberates across the globe. Particularly noteworthy is how baseball has taken hold in Asia. While maintaining the essence of the game, a wide range of Asian cultures have embraced …
Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a virtual revolution in the way t…
National Pastime: U.S. History Through Baseball
by Zeiler, Thomas W., Babicz, Martin C.
fromAmerican Ways
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Type: Book
Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity - baseball has reflected America's history and ideals. In this book, historians Martin Babicz and Thomas Zeiler find in baseball a window into America's past and into the values that allow both the spo…