The New Ballgame: Understanding Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan
Book Details
Author(s)
Glenn Guzzo
Publisher
ACTA Sports
ISBN / ASIN
087946318X
ISBN-13
9780879463182
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,643,118
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
As the use of statistics becomes ever more popular, and essential, in baseball, The New Ballgame provides a user-friendly explanation of the increasingly complex statistics used in the game.
Written by Glenn Guzzo, author of the award-winning Strat-O-Matic Fanatics, this book is perfect for fans just getting into baseball stats, veteran statheads trying to explain to their significant others why they care about stats, and as a gift for kids just becoming interested in baseball statistics.
Key features include:
- Definitions for all the stats currently used in baseball
- A historical breakdown of statistics in the game
- Keeping score during a game
- Reading a box score
- Fantasy/simulation baseball games
- The future of statistics in baseball
