Download or read book The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008 written by Bryan Tsao and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the entire 2007 baseball season from the first pitch to the last out, including a breakdown of the post season and the World Series. Key features include: ? Reviews of how 2005 played out in each of baseball's six divisions ? An in-depth look at the minor leagues ? Detailed team stats and graphs ? Team-by-team individual hitting and fielding numbers ? A postseason and World Series round up
Download or read book The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2009 written by Joe Distelheim and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the entire 2008 baseball season, this annual includes reviews of how 2008 played out in each of baseball's six divisions; provides detailed team stats and graphs; offers team-by-team individual hitting and fielding numbers; and more.
Download or read book The Hardball Times Season Preview written by Hardball Times Writers and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folks at The Hardball Times are well-known for their cutting-edge analysis of the season that was, but in 2009 The Hardball Times will become the information clearing house for the season that will be. The Hardball Times Season Preview 2009 provides projections for major league players and teams as well as individual players' careers. The stable of writers at The Hardball Times offers up fantasy strategies, top candidates for breakouts and collapses, and of course, the top prospects to watch in 2009.
Download or read book The Hardball Times Baseball Annual written by and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the entire 2006 baseball season from the first pitch to the last out, including a breakdown of the post season and the World Series. Key features include: Reviews of how 2005 played out in each of baseball's six divisions, An in-depth look at the minor leagues, Detailed team stats and graphs, Team-by-team individual hitting and fielding numbers, A postseason and World Series round up.
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Download or read book The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2011 written by Hardball Times Writers and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2011 compiles some of the best analytical and historical writing on baseball with unique and innovative statistics into a timeless annual guide. With guest writers like Rob Neyer, John Dewan, Richard Lederer and Tom Tango, and articles on some of the hottest topics in baseball, as well as historical analyses, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual is a resource readers will enjoy again and again.
Download or read book The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2006 written by ACTA Publications and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2006 is a comprehensive analysis of the entire 2005 MLB season from the first pitch to the last out, including a breakdown of the playoffs and World Series.
Download or read book Beyond Batting Average written by Lee Panas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, a multitude of advanced hitting, pitching, fielding and base running measures have been introduced to the baseball world. This comprehensive sabermetrics primer will introduce you to these new statistics with easy to understand explanations and examples. It will illustrate the evolution of statistics from simple traditional measures to the more complex metrics of today. You will learn how all the statistics are connected to winning and losing games, how to interpret them, and how to apply them to performance on the field. By the end of this book, you will be able to evaluate players and teams through statistics more thoroughly and accurately than you could before.
Download or read book Scorecasting written by Tobias Moskowitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.
Download or read book The Bill James Gold Mine 2008 written by Bill James and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New essays, statistical profiles, and hidden "nuggets" from the man who revolutionized baseball analysis"--Cover
Download or read book Ducksnorts 2009 Baseball Annual written by Geoff Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ducksnorts 2009 Baseball Annual provides the most comprehensive analysis of and commentary on the San Diego Padres available anywhere. Highlights include: Foreword by Padres Executive Vice President Paul DePodesta -- Commentary on and graphical analysis of key players -- Survey of farm system, including reports on more than 80 prospects -- Detailed review of team's inaugural 1969 campaign -- Essay on relationship between fans, management, and media -- Assorted original mini-studies"--Publisher's webpage ducksnorts.com.
Download or read book Evaluating Baseball s Managers written by Chris Jaffe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their performance and tendencies. Rather than focusing solely on in-game tactical decisions, it also analyzes broader, off-the-field management issues such as handling players, fans, and media, enforcing team rules, working with the front office, and balancing pressure versus performance.
Download or read book The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2016 written by Joe Distelheim and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 36204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Clutch written by Paul Sullivan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is clutch performance innate-or can it be learned? Sooner or later everyone encounters a situation in which the stakes are high and the outcome is crucial. And even top performers can crumble when faced with such extreme pressure. Consider the CEO who panics in a desperate attempt to shore up his company's earnings, the veteran politician who grows overconfident and loses to the upstart candidate, the quarterback who carries his team to the Super Bowl but falls apart in the final quarter. All of them choked. But then there are the performers who thrive under such conditions: the ER doctor racing the clock to save someone's life, the lieutenant who leads his platoon to victory after an ambush, the young attorney who refuses to be intimidated in court and wins the crucial case. These people are clutch, and their ability to overcome extreme pressure consistently and beat the toughest odds fascinates us. How do they do it? According to Paul Sullivan, clutch performance does not stem from an innate ability. It's a learned skill: the art of operating in high-stress situations as if they were everyday conditions. Even some of the most experienced and talented performers lack this skill-but Sullivan shows that anyone can develop it. Drawing on new research and interviews with stars across a range of fields, Sullivan uncovers the shared traits that define clutch performers and explains how anyone can apply their strategies. He builds his case through many inspiring true stories, including those of * a skinny sergeant who saved his battalion in Iraq; * a rookie baseball player who pitched his team into its first World Series; * an eccentric psychiatrist who trained a group of financial traders to become the best in the world; * a lawyer who struggled in school but became one of the top litigators in America. Full of powerful advice and real-world examples, Clutch will show you how to overcome extreme pressure to achieve greatness.
Download or read book Team Chemistry written by Nathan Michael Corzine and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the "pure" game of baseball. Nathan Corzine rescues the story of baseball's relationship with drugs from the sepia-toned tyranny of such myths. In Team Chemistry , he reveals a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from the day the first pitch was thrown. Indeed, throughout the game's history, stars and scrubs alike partook of a pharmacopeia that helped them stay on the field and cope off of it: In 1889, Pud Galvin tried a testosterone-derived "elixir" to help him pile up some of his 646 complete games. Sandy Koufax needed Codeine and an anti-inflammatory used on horses to pitch through his late-career elbow woes. Players returning from World War II mainstreamed the use of the amphetamines they had used as servicemen. Vida Blue invited teammates to cocaine parties, Tim Raines used it to stay awake on the bench, and Will McEnaney snorted it between innings. Corzine also ventures outside the lines to show how authorities handled--or failed to handle--drug and alcohol problems, and how those problems both shaped and scarred the game. The result is an eye-opening look at what baseball's relationship with substances legal and otherwise tells us about culture, society, and masculinity in America.
