Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167). Describes how statistics are used in the game of baseball and discusses such topics as box scores, real-life applications of stats on television, and the future of statistics in baseball.
From the Publisher
As the use of statistics becomes ever more popular in baseball, both in analysis from evening sports shows and among everyday fans, this book provides a user-friendly explanation of the increasingly complex statistics used in the game. It includes a historical breakdown of statistics, definitions of all the stats currently used in baseball, practical uses of stats, and a discussion of the future of statistics in baseball.