The numbers game : baseball's lifelong fascination with statistics

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Label

The numbers game : baseball's lifelong fascination with statistics

Title remainder

baseball's lifelong fascination with statistics

Statement of responsibility

Alan Schwarz

Creator

• Schwarz, Alan

Subject

• Baseball statisticians
• History
• Baseball -- Statistics
• Baseball -- United States -- Statistics | History
• United States
• Baseball statisticians -- United States -- History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

796.357/021

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GV877

LC item number

.S385 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries