The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball

by Sheldon Hirsch and Alan Hirsch

Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that the so-called moneyball approach, based on sabermetrics, offers only limited guidance for assembling a team, managing games, and evaluating player performance. Equally important, the obsession with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786462884
• ISBN13: 9780786462889
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher