tailieunhanh - Baseball’s Offensive Greats of the Deadball Era

If ever there was a match made in heaven, it’s the marriage of baseball and statistics and, as in all happy marriages, each partner contributes its most valuable assets: • Baseball, its sheer visual beauty, joy of competition, the thrill of bat meeting ball, ball meeting glove, pregnant pauses that culminate in seconds of excitement and agony. As the eminent philosopher–baseball fan Morris R. Cohen put it, an “extraordinarily rich multiplicity of movements.” • Statistics and their pliability as an analytical tool. Through the manipulation of them, we can tell who are the premier performers in this game that so enchants us with its speed, powerful grace and. | Mm Robert E. Kelly Foreword by Leonard Levin X Baseball s Offensive GreatsX of the Deadball Era Best Producers Rated by Position 1901-1919 Baseball s Offensive Greats of the Deadball Era Also by Robert E. Kelly and from McFarland The National Debt of the United States 1941 to 2008 2d. ed. 2008 Baseball for the Hot Stove League Fifteen Essays 1989 Baseball s Best Hall of Fame Pretenders Active in the Eighties 1988