The numbers game

"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. 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."--Jacket.

שנה

2005

שפה

English

הוצאה

St. Martin's Griffin

מהדורות

4

עמודים

288

ISBN

9780312322236

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata