Title:
The hidden game of baseball : a revolutionary approach to baseball and its statistics / John Thorn and Pete Palmer with David Reuther ; foreword by Keith Law.
ISBN:
9780226242484
Personal Author:
Edition:
[Third edition, enlarged].
Publication Information:
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
©1985
Physical Description:
xx, 432 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
"Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. in 1984."--Title page verso.
Contents:
The music of sphere and ash -- What's wrong with traditional baseball statistics -- The new statistics -- The linear weights system -- There's no place like home -- The theory of relativity and other absolute truths -- The good old days are now -- The book . . . and the computer -- Rising to the occasion -- 44 percent of baseball -- Measuring the unmeasurable -- What makes teams win -- Great single-season performances -- The ultimate baseball statistic -- Rumblings in the pantheon.
OCLC Number:
ocn887849321
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
