The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball by Hirsch, Sheldon
The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball by Hirsch, Sheldon

The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball

Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime....
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Author: Sheldon Hirsch
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The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball by Hirsch, Sheldon

The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball

$100.20
The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball by Hirsch, Sheldon

The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball

$100.20
Author: Sheldon Hirsch
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 02/25/2011
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780786462889
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Sheldon Hirsch's dreams of the major leagues died after a mediocre season as a high school junior. He is a nephrologist living outside of Chicago, and has published extensively in medical journals. Alan Hirsch, chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College, has written numerous books and been published in The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Newsday and Village Voice, among many others. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.


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