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The hidden game of baseball : a revolutionary approach to baseball and its statistics
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- Creator
- by John Thorn and Pete Palmer with David Reuther ; foreword by Keith Law
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Third edition, enlarged]
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
- ©1985
- Physical Details
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- xx, 432 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226242484, 022624248X
- OCLC
- ocn887849321
- "Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. in 1984."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-432).
- The music of sphere and ash -- What's wrong with traditional baseball statistics -- The new statistics -- The linear weights system -- There's no place like home -- The theory of relativity and other absolute truths -- The good old days are now -- The book . . . and the computer -- Rising to the occasion -- 44 percent of baseball -- Measuring the unmeasurable -- What makes teams win -- Great single-season performances -- The ultimate baseball statistic -- Rumblings in the pantheon