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2 produkter
2 produkter
Beauty of Short Hops
How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
375 kr
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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.
200 kr
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Make America Sane Again: Reflections on Trump’s Travesties catalogues Donald Trump’s many travesties, dating back to his first inauguration but concentrating on his second term. The book is a nearly daily analysis of Trump's horrors, one by one, including his personal demons, his quest for unlimited power, and his various wars on democracy, justice, women, trans-genders, medicine, science, universities, free thought, law firms, the environment, the IRS, the homeless, poor people, Africa, and more. The analysis is written with a meticulousness and rigor that reflects the author’s scientific training, but in a conversational, easy-to-read letters-to-the-editor style. (A number were published in the NYT or Chicago Tribune.) Furthermore, many of the letters have a bit of a twist in them, enlivening the discussion. The style is unique in the political reporting genre.