Bibliograph

The numbers game, baseball's lifelong fascination with statistics, Alan Schwarz

Type

Label

The numbers game, baseball's lifelong fascination with statistics, Alan Schwarz

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The numbers game

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alan Schwarz

Review

"In this book, Alan Schwarz, whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lews calls "one of today's best baseball journalists," provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics, showing how baseball and its numbers have been inseparable ever since the pastime's birth in 1845

Sub title

baseball's lifelong fascination with statistics

Summary

He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most: Henry Chadwick, the nineteenth-century writer who invented the first box score and harped on endlessly about which statistics mattered and which did not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's right-hand numbers man with the late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, a scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who retired to pursue inventing the perfect baseball statistic; John Dewan, a former Strat-O-Matic maven who built STATS Inc. into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse for statistics over the Internet; and dozens more."--BOOK JACKET

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