07-20-2008, 08:50 AM
by Michael Evans...I'm not much of a baseball fan. I've been to a couple of Giants and A's games. I learned what I know about the game (which isn't much) from watching my daughter play softball for two years. After that, we started watching Giants games on TV for a season. It always struck me funny when a guy would come up to the plate and the announcer would say, "You know, he'e 4 and 2 against left handed pitchers named Pete in parks built out of bricks on Wednesdays" or some stat like that.
This book is about that. It's about where all those stats came from. It about how the Oakland A's with the help of some people who've had some schoolin' were able to reexamine how they picked their team given their limited budget and do remarkably well.
I saw it on a book list somewhere. At the library, I requested a bunch of books from the list and this is the first one that came in. I'm not much of a reader, but I found this book well written, engaging, and interesting, even for someone who isn't all that into the subject.
--tg
This book is about that. It's about where all those stats came from. It about how the Oakland A's with the help of some people who've had some schoolin' were able to reexamine how they picked their team given their limited budget and do remarkably well.
I saw it on a book list somewhere. At the library, I requested a bunch of books from the list and this is the first one that came in. I'm not much of a reader, but I found this book well written, engaging, and interesting, even for someone who isn't all that into the subject.
--tg