The Beauty of Short Hops

The Beauty of Short Hops
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9780786485840
ISBN-13 : 0786485841
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Book Synopsis The Beauty of Short Hops by : Sheldon Hirsch

Download or read book The Beauty of Short Hops written by Sheldon Hirsch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that the so-called moneyball approach, based on sabermetrics, offers only limited guidance for assembling a team, managing games, and evaluating player performance. Equally important, the obsession with statistics and vision of the game as wholly predictable obscure baseball's spectacular improvisational quality. It is the game's unquantifiable and relentless capacity to surprise--the source of wonder so central to its greatest stories and personalities--that informs any real appreciation of baseball.


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