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• Paperback
• 288
• The Numbers Game Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
• Alan Schwarz
• English
• 12 May 2019
• 9780312322236

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free read ☆ eBook or Kindle ePUB í Alan Schwarz review The Numbers Game Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics 103 Alan Schwarz í 3 summary Howing how baseball and its numbers have been inseparable ever since the pastime's birth in 1845 He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most Henry Chadwick the 19th century writer who invented the first box score and harped 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 v. Surprisingly good history of baseball stats and the people behind those stats Well worth reading

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free read ☆ eBook or Kindle ePUB í Alan Schwarz review The Numbers Game Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics 103 Alan Schwarz í 3 summary Eteran 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 Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics but of the soul of the sport itself Named as ESPN's 2004 Baseball Book of the Year The Numbers Game will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books. It s hard to say exactly what I think of The Numbers Game Baseball s Lifelong Fascination with Statistics I d assumed it would be engaging since statistics have played such a large part in baseball for so long But I think this might be a case where the book was researched very well but executed poorlyNo disrespect to Alan Schwarz but I felt The Numbers Game was lacking in that the concept was uniue and interesting but the writing was hackneyed and wooden Like Schwarz was really excited by the concept but that excitement got lost when he put pen to paper As a result it s hard for me as a reader to get excited about itAnother issue I found with this was the style Schwarz adopted describing a person who s important to the topic but an unknown to everyone else Then he sets off their name with a colon and ends a section or a chapter I like to call this the Ken Burns method It goes something like this Then in 2004 a book finally did come out and the author would go down as one of the foremost compilers of nonsensical statistical errata his name was Alan Schwarz Used prudently this can be an effective tool in a writer s toolbox But when you use it as much as Schwarz does it grows tired very uicklyAlan Schwarz is a good writer you can see that from the myriad pieces he s written and the wide readership his articles enjoy But I don t think the transition from short form to long form writing agreed with him all that well The writing is lackluster and full of cliche Although each chapter taken in a vacuum might read well the book taken as a whole is left wanting The Big Golden Book of Poetry 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 Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics but of the soul of the sport itself Named as ESPN's 2004 Baseball Book of the Year The Numbers Game will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books. It s hard to say exactly what I think of The Numbers Game Baseball s Lifelong Fascination with Statistics I d assumed it would be engaging since statistics have played such a large part in baseball for so long But I think this might be a case where the book was Wild Man Creek really excited by the concept but that excitement got lost when he put pen to paper As a Homewrecker reader to get excited about itAnother issue I found with this was the style Schwarz adopted describing a person who s important to the topic but an unknown to everyone else Then he sets off their name with a colon and ends a section or a chapter I like to call this the Ken Burns method It goes something like this Then in 2004 a book finally did come out and the author would go down as one of the foremost compilers of nonsensical statistical errata his name was Alan Schwarz Used prudently this can be an effective tool in a writer s toolbox But when you use it as much as Schwarz does it grows tired very uicklyAlan Schwarz is a good writer you can see that from the myriad pieces he s written and the wide Make your own model forts castles readership his articles enjoy But I don t think the transition from short form to long form writing agreed with him all that well The writing is lackluster and full of cliche Although each chapter taken in a vacuum might Tremors of Fury The Days of Ash and Fury #2 read well the book taken as a whole is left wanting

free read ☆ eBook or Kindle ePUB í Alan Schwarz review The Numbers Game Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics 103 Alan Schwarz í 3 summary Most baseball fans players and even team executives assume that the national pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a by product of the information age a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s They couldn't be wrongIn this award winning book Alan Schwarz whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls one of today's best baseball journalists provides the first ever history of baseball statistics s. Great insights into the numbers of baseball