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<p><p>most Baseball Fans, Players And Even Team Executives Assume That The National Pastime's Infatuation With Statistics Is Simply A Byproduct Of The Information Age, A Phenomenon That Blossomed Only After The Arrival Of Bill James And Computers In The 1980s. They Couldn't Be More Wrong.<p>in This Unprecedented New Book, Alan Schwarz - Whom Bestselling <i>moneyball</i> Author Michael Lewis Calls One Of Today's Best Baseball Journalists - Provides The First-ever History Of Baseball Statistics, Showing How Baseball And Its Numbers Have Been Inseparable Ever Since The Pastime's Birth In 1845. He Tells The History Of This Obsession Through The Lives Of The People Who Felt It Most&#58; Henry Chadwick, The 19th-century Writer Who Invented The First Box Score And Harped Endlessly About Which Statistics Mattered And Which Did Not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's Right-hand Numbers Man With The Late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, A Scientist And Manhattan Project Veteran Who Retired To Pursue Inventing The Perfect Baseball Statistic; John Dewan, A Former Strat-o-matic Maven Who Built Stats Inc. Into A Multimillion-dollar Powerhouse For Statistics Over The Internet; And Dozens More.<p>a

Who reads The Numbers Game : Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics?

Author

Alan Schwarz; Peter Gammons

Publisher

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312322236

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Mathematics, Fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (901 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13