Extra innings : more baseball between the numbers from the team at Baseball prospectus / edited by Steven Goldman.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c2012.Description: xviii, 446 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0465024033
- 9780465024032
- Baseball prospectus.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 796.357 E96 | Available | 33111006739938 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan.
In Extra Innings , the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers , they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Innings is an essential volume for every baseball fan.
Includes index.
A latest guide to the statistical logic that is revolutionizing baseball outlines 20 arguments about how the game is played today, assessing topics ranging from the impact of steroids and the amateur draft to the roles of managers and the art of building a bullpen.