This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.ĥ8. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don’t merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. ) Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong by Jonah Keri A great story about what it means to want to do something so badly you re willing to break the rules to do it and how breaking the rules can lead to change.ĥ9. She made the team and changed Little League forever. So she cut off her hair and tried out as a boy under the nickname Tubby. In 1950, Kathryn Johnston wanted to play Little League, but an unwritten rule kept girls from trying out.
) Anybody’s Game: Kathryn Johnston, the First Girl to Play Little League Baseball by Heather Lang
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