Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the national pastime\'s infatuation with Statistics is simply a by-product of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s.
In this award-winning book, Alan Schwarz - whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls "one of today\'s best baseball journalists" - provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics, s.
They couldn\'t be more wrong.
Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the national pastime\'s infatuation with Statistics is simply a by-product of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s
