This complete annual baseball reference guide includes an extensive glossary with math formulas for determining the multitude of statistics now used in baseball, new pitcher projections, new base running analysis, hitter projections, team efficiency summary, player win-shares, and managers' records.
Preeminent baseball analyst James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Neyer collaborate on the definitive guide to pitching throughout baseball history. 25 photos.
This is the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game of baseball. In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, ...
This unprecedented book provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics--their keeping, their study, their creators--and analyzes this cultural phenomenon from 1845 until today.
Now in its 14th edition, the "Baseball Prospectus" is the industry leader among annual baseball guides. The 2009 edition contains cutting-edge essays on performance analysis and offers accurate projection on players' statistics.
Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, "The Book" continues where the legendary Bill James' "Baseball Abstracts" and Palmer and Thorn's "The Hidden Game of Baseball" left off more than twenty years ago. Continuing in the grand tradition of sabermetrics, the authors provide a revolutionary way to think about baseball with principles that ...
The leading annual reference guide to the next generation of rising stars, the "Prospect Handbook" profiles in-depth analysis and statistics of 900 players, provides a list of the top 100 prospects, and a ranking of the Major League Baseball player development programs.
Bursting with the facts, figures, photos, and analysis that baseball fans can't get enough of, The Complete Boston Red Sox features lifetime stats for every player ever to don a Red Sox uniform. Biographies of the 100 all-time Red Sox include Wade Boggs, Carlton Fisk, Pedro Martinez, Jimmie Foxx, Carl Yastrezemski, Cy Young, and of course, Babe ...
The obsessive reference for every baseball nut, THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is a comprehensive, original, devour-it-like-salted-peanuts single-volume encyclopedia that marries history and statistics and delivers them team by team. Organizing by teams gives the wide view-- how do the Murderer's Row Yankees compare to the ...
"Diamond Dollars" is a fresh, provocative, insightful, and analytical look at the business of baseball. Using the win-revenue relationship as a foundation, author Vince Gennaro delves deeply to explain how a team's level of competitiveness impacts the "value" of its players, to explore how a well-developed farm system contributes to a team's ...
Every baseball fan knows New York Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter is a great all-around player. But how about Alex Rodriguez, Jeter's teammate, former American League MVP, and probable future Hall of Famer? Many would argue he's even better than Jeter. And what about Jeter's seemingly unassailable status as one of the greatest Yankees of all time? ...
For baseball addicts, the sport is more than just a game: it's a ritual, a form of self-definition, even a part of nature. After all, there's no clearer sign that winter's ending than seeing the boys of summer return to spring training. "Baseball: The Players, The World Series, The Records" celebrates that passion. Uniquely designed to look and ...
"Diehard fanatics will enjoy this comprehensive collection of groundbreaking baseball strategies, analyses, statistics, and studies" Baseball fans all across America will delight in this fascinating analysis of strategies and statistics. This unique approach to understanding the "tried and true" methodologies of the game of baseball examines ...
The intent of this book is to look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective. There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and to use these data to try to understand characteristics of the game. The problem is that patterns in baseball data are difficult to ...
This book provides a fantastic and far-flung compilation of stats, figures, and little-known nuggets about our national pastime. An addictive read, sure to spark conversation wherever baseball is spoken, "The Baseball Maniac's Almanac" is part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser - and absolutely the greatest, most unusual and thorough ...
Get into the great baseball debate with HBO's 'Mr. Stats'. If Babe Ruth played today, could he dominate modern players? Could Ty Cobb adjust to today's game? What if Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson had to pitch to the likes of Ted Williams and Stan Musial? Who was better - Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle? Joe DiMaggio or Stan Musial? And, in the ...
The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome Trivia is filled with knuckleballs and curves guaranteed to delight - and frustrate - baseball fans across the world. Baseball afficionado Ken Shouler includes more than 500 Q & A's that cover the game's all-time greats and the cup-of-coffee players, the teams past and present, the ...
Recognized the world over as the authoritative source for baseball statistics, this book provides reliable, accesible, objective information on every aspect of the game. Features include a complete listing of every one of the 14,000 men who have played in the major leagues and their stats, inning-by-inning line scores and summaries for all World ...
This sourcebook includes complete statistics for every player who ever played for the oldest franchise in baseball, the Chicago Cubs. Also included are biographies, lists of records and recordholders, and historical features such as "10 Worst Trades in Cubs History," and "Superstitions and Odd Habits." A complete compendium of Cubs lore.
This is the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game of baseball. In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, ...
The "New York Times" bestselling guide to Major League Baseball returns, bringing together the top young baseball writers and analysts in the business to provide the definitive look at the season to come.
Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That's the conclusion of this engaging and provocative analysis of baseball's all-time best hitters. Michael Schell challenges the traditional list of all-time hitters, which places Ty Cobb first, Gwynn 16th, and includes just 8 players whose prime came after 1960. Schell argues that ...
Starting in the 1970s, a night watchman wfrom Kansas forever changed the way that many people view baseball analysis and ultimately the game itself. Now Bill James is doing it again with The Bill James Gold Mine??????a groundbreaking collection of original essays, statistical profiles, and hidden "nuggets" of information worth their weight in gold ...
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