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The Numbers Game
by Alan Schwarz
Baseball's lifelong fascination with statistics, from Henry Chadwick to Bill James. The history behind Moneyball.
Read it if…
you want the origins of baseball analytics.
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Skip it if…
you want current sabermetrics.
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Three things you will actually use
- Numbers tell stories.
- Outsiders change fields.
- Measure better.
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Read the chapters on Bill James.
Our verdict
Stats history.
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