Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak

Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak
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Publisher : University Press of New England
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9781512600643
ISBN-13 : 1512600644
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Book Synopsis Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak by : Sheldon Hirsch

Download or read book Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak written by Sheldon Hirsch and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sports there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Joe DiMaggio's fifty-six-game hitting streak was magical. The three-point shot is an essential part of NBA basketball. Babe Ruth shouldn't have attempted to steal second base in the ninth inning of the 1926 World Series. Scientist and researcher Sheldon Hirsch has taken a decidedly unorthodox approach to sports history. He looks at myths, legends, conventional wisdom, shibboleths, and firm convictions of all kinds that sports lovers hold to be true, and demonstrates how analysis of facts and figures disproves what tradition - and sportswriters - would have us believe. Divided into three parts, on baseball, basketball, and football, Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak contains enough clear-sightedness and shocking conclusions to delight any sports lover.


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