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The Runmakers: A New Way to Rate Baseball Players
Frederick E. Taylor
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Description for The Runmakers: A New Way to Rate Baseball Players
Hardback. Measuring baseball will never be the same. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1562.
Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. Managers pore over batting averages to determine game day lineups and batting orders; high number of runs batted in and low earned run averages receive praise from the press, higher salaries from the front office, and love from fans; and the fate of fantasy baseball players rises and falls with each statistical change. The prominence of the RC/27 and other more complex, formula-driven stats has made numbers even more important to understanding and appreciating the game. For all these baseball buffs and more, Frederick E. Taylor provides a new measure of hitting prowess that ... Read more
Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. Managers pore over batting averages to determine game day lineups and batting orders; high number of runs batted in and low earned run averages receive praise from the press, higher salaries from the front office, and love from fans; and the fate of fantasy baseball players rises and falls with each statistical change. The prominence of the RC/27 and other more complex, formula-driven stats has made numbers even more important to understanding and appreciating the game. For all these baseball buffs and more, Frederick E. Taylor provides a new measure of hitting prowess that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421400105
SKU
V9781421400105
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-11
About Frederick E. Taylor
Frederick E. Taylor is a lifelong baseball fan and player. A retired professor of American government, he also worked for the United States Department of Commerce and Department of Defense. This is his first book.
Reviews for The Runmakers: A New Way to Rate Baseball Players
A deeply old-fashioned treatise in which a statistic of Mr. Taylor's devising (potential runs per game) is used to rate the top hitters in history by era, position and role... Charming.
Tim Marchman Wall Street Journal 2011
Tim Marchman Wall Street Journal 2011