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Schell, Michael J.

 
9780691004556: Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
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ISBN 10: 0691004552 ISBN 13: 9780691004556
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1999

Sinopsis

Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That is the conclusion of this text - an analysis of baseball's all-time best hitters. Author Michael Schell challenges the traditional list of all-time hitters, which places Ty Cobb first, Gwynn 16th, and includes just eight players whose prime came after 1960. Schell argues that the raw batting averages used as the list's basis should be adjusted to take into account that hitters played in different eras, with different rules, and in different ballparks. He makes those adjustments and produces a new list of the best 100 hitters.

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Michael Schell is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Biostatistics Core Facility at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the author of Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs (Princeton) and has published more than 100 research articles on statistics and cancer.

De la contraportada

"This is a provocative new look at baseball's best hitters, using a sound statistical approach. It's a `must read' for anyone who loves our national pastime."--Pete Palmer, coauthor ofTotal Baseball and The Hidden Game of Baseball.

"This book makes a significant contribution to baseball statistics and will also have the side-effect of getting readers interested in statistical reasoning and in how statistics can be used to clarify comparisons."--Carl Morris, Harvard University

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"This is a provocative new look at baseball's best hitters, using a sound statistical approach. It's a `must read' for anyone who loves our national pastime."--Pete Palmer, coauthor of Total Baseball and The Hidden Game of Baseball.

"This book makes a significant contribution to baseball statistics and will also have the side-effect of getting readers interested in statistical reasoning and in how statistics can be used to clarify comparisons."--Carl Morris, Harvard University

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691004552
ISBN 13 
9780691004556
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
328
Contacto del fabricante
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ISBN 10:  0691123438 ISBN 13:  9780691123431
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 2005
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