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It’s the last inning of an important game. A powerful hitter comes up to the plate. Will the pitcher be able to get the batter out? Another man walks out of the home team’s dugout. He walks to the pitcher’s mound. He tells the pitcher what to do. The other man is the manager. A manager is the head coach of a baseball team. He decides which players play in games. He decides when to take a player out of a game. He studies information about the team his players are facing and uses that information to give his players instructions | How Baseball Managers Use Math I p z v Z 4- z-s I Q 4- 4- I Math Curriculum Consultant Rhea A. Stewart . JOI II I UCI LUItlU Specialist in Mathematics Science and Technology Education How Baseball Managers Use Math by John C. Bertoletti Math Curriculum Consultant Rhea A. Stewart . Specialist in Mathematics Science and Technology Education à CHELSEA clubhouse An Imprint of Chelsea House Publishers Math in the Real World How Baseball Managers Use Math Copyright 2010 by Infobase Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage or retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact Chelsea Clubhouse An imprint of Chelsea House Publishers 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bertoletti John C. How baseball managers use math by John C. Bertoletti math curriculum consultant Rhea A. Stewart. p. cm. Math in the real world Includes index. ISBN 978-1-60413-604-3 ISBN 978-1-4381-2891-7 e-book 1. Mathematical statistics Juvenile literature. 2. Mathematics Juvenile literature. 3. Baseball Juvenile literature. I. Title. II. Series. 2010 dc22 2009016265 Chelsea Clubhouse books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses associations institutions or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at 212 967-8800 or 800 322-8755. You can find Chelsea Clubhouse on the World Wide Web at http Developed for Chelsea House by RJF Publishing LLC Text and cover design by Tammy West Westgraphix LLC Illustrations by Spectrum Creative Inc. Photo research by Edward A. Thomas Index by Nila Glikin Photo Credits 4 14 21 23 Getty Images 6 New York Post 7 8 9 10 12 16 19 24 AP Wide World Photos 17 20 22 MLB Photo via Getty Images 18