The Beauty of Short Hops

How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball

Nonfiction, Sports, Baseball
Cover of the book The Beauty of Short Hops by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch ISBN: 9780786485840
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: January 10, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
ISBN: 9780786485840
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: January 10, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Cover of the book H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book CCSVI as the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Lillian Carter by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Killing Off the Lesbians by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book The Bowling Chronicles by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Princeton Radicals of the 1960s, Then and Now by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book The Battle Rifle by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Marvel Comics' Civil War and the Age of Terror by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Latin American Rebels and the United States, 1806-1822 by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Parachuting into Poland, 1944 by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Base Ball Founders by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book The Christmas Encyclopedia, 3d ed. by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book Asian American Basketball by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book The Hike into the Sun by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Cover of the book "Throw the book away" by Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy