Search results for “[Subject: baseball-statistics]”

• Author(s): David P. Gerard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Gross Productivity Average, or GPA, is a new baseball statistic that measures performance. Accounting for t...

• Author(s): Gabriel B. Costa | Michael R. Huber | John T. Saccoman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics Interest in Sabermetrics has increased dramatically in recent yea...

• Author(s): William Darby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics Baseball is a readily quantifiable sport, and baseball historians, journalists and front office personnel ...

• Author(s): David Kaiser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Recent advances in baseball statistical analysis have made it possible to assess the totality of contribution ...

• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In March 1871, ten of the United States' most powerful professional baseball clubs met in Brooklyn, New ...

• Author(s): Gabriel B. Costa | Michael R. Huber | John T. Saccoman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Sabermetrics, the specialized analysis of baseball through empirical...

• Author(s): Gabriel B. Costa | Michael R. Huber | John T. Saccoman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics The past 30 years have seen an explosion in the number and variet...

• Author(s): Herman O. Krabbenhoft • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics Every sport has its subtleties, and in baseball, one subtlety is the batting line-up. Leadoff batt...

• Author(s): Kenneth Hogan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Mariners were not Seattle's first major league baseball team. In 1937, Seattle businessman Emil Sick boug...

• Author(s): Daniel E. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics This book--the first in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of Japanese baseball ...

• Author(s): Ken Ross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralIn A Mathematician at the Ballpark, professor Ken Ross reveals the math behind the stats. Thi...

• Author(s): Jorge S. Figueredo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In March 1999, the Baltimore Orioles played a team of Cuban all-stars, the first time a major league bas...

• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Before the onset of professional baseball, there existed a myriad of teams and players going back to the...

• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For over 100 years, the Texas League has been one of the top minor leagues in the Southwest. This work i...

• Author(s): Sheldon Hirsch | Alan Hirsch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, ...

• Author(s): Andres Wirkmaa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Many fans enjoy keeping track of baseball action with easy abbreviations written on simple grids. Serious sc...

• Author(s): Severo Nieto • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Before they were the stars of the Negro Leagues--before the Negro Leagues even began--outstanding African Amer...

• Author(s): Russell O. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History With the advent of interleague play and the realignment resulting from both the Milwaukee Brewers' jump f...

• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics From 1884 to 1953, the International League enjoyed a measure of stability that was the envy of many ...

• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, acco...

• Author(s): Chris Jaffe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric ...

• Author(s): Robert E. Kelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, and Honus Wagner were among the greatest hitters who ever played major league baseball...

• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which o...

• Author(s): James F. Vail • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, enshrines some players whose worthiness seems...

• Author(s): Tom Thress • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Baseball analysts often criticize pitcher win-loss records as a poor measure of pitcher performance, as wins are...

• Author(s): Jamie Selko • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Long before strip malls, television and huge retail chains homogenized American culture, minor league baseball ...

• Author(s): W. C. Madden | Patrick J. Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History One of the first minor leagues in history, the Western League (previously the Northwester...

• Author(s): Lawrence S. Katz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1939, baseball's past ran headlong into its future. As the game celebrated its 100th anniversary with t...

• Author(s): David Finoli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Like virtually every other aspect of American life, baseball was affected by World War II. Many of its players...

• Author(s): Robert M. Gorman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Much has been written about Roger Maris and the historic summer of 1961 when he broke Babe Ruth's single-s...

• Author(s): Dennis Pajot • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History When baseball teams began competing in Milwaukee in the 1860s the game, though still recognizably baseball, ha...

• Author(s): Dennis Snelling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics The Pacific Coast League enjoyed a reputation as one of the premier minor leagues in organized baseball....

• Author(s): John G. Robertson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Homer-by-homer, this heavily researched work recounts the inimitable Babe Ruth's finest season. In that m...

• Author(s): Paul G. Zinn | John G. Zinn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball at its best is a combination of chess match and gladiatorial combat, waged over a long...

• Author(s): Andrew Goldblatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Thirty years into baseball's sabermetric revolution, relatively little attention has been paid to the impa...

• Author(s): Fred Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Mathematics is often challenging for students majoring in nontechnical fields. This book makes mathematical conc...