The Diamond Appraised Author:Craig R. Wright, Tom House Why has the National League dominated the All-Star Game? Is there anything we can learn from a catcher's Earned Run Average? How many innings can a young pitcher pitch without suffering a career-threatening injury? — Questions like these were once fodder for off-season agruments. In recent years, they've spawned a... more » whole new field of scientific inquiry called sabermetrics: the study of baseball statistics as a means to baseball truths, rather than as truths themselves.
Lively, provocative, and engrossing, The Diamond Appraised presents the ultimate baseball debate. It is the first book to combine the sabermetric research of a world-class baseball analyst with the practical on-the-field experience of a manjor-league baseball player and coach.« less