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Law, Keith, 1973-
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Baseball -- United States -- Management.
Baseball teams -- United States -- History.
Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Baseball -- Psychological aspects.
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Law, Keith, 1973-
Baseball -- United States -- Management.
Baseball teams -- United States -- History.
Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Baseball -- Psychological aspects.
MARC Display
The inside game : bad calls, strange moves, and what
baseball
behavior teaches us about ourselves / Keith Law.
by
Law, Keith, 1973-
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
Call #:
796.357022 L415i
Subjects
Baseball
--
United
States
--
Management
.
Baseball
teams
--
United
States
--
History.
Baseball
--
Economic aspects
--
United
States
.
Baseball
--
Psychological aspects.
ISBN:
9780062942722 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 263 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, the ESPN
baseball
writer and author of the acclaimed Smart
Baseball
, offers an era-spanning dissection of some of the best and worst decisions in modern
baseball
, explaining what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how their legacy has shaped the game. For years, Daniel Kahneman’s iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across Major League
Baseball
. In this smart, incisive, and eye-opening book, Keith Law applies Kahneman’s ideas about decision making to the game itself.
Baseball
is a sport of decisions. Some are so small and routine they become the building blocks of the game itself
--
what pitch to throw or when to swing away. Others are so huge they dictate the future of franchises—when to make a strategic trade for a chance to win now, or when to offer a millions and a multi-year contract for a twenty-eight-year-old star. These decisions have long shaped the behavior of players, managers, and entire franchises. But as those choices have become more complex and data-driven, knowing what’s behind them has become key to understanding the sport. This fascinating, revelatory work explores as never before the essential question: What were they thinking? Combining behavioral science and interviews with executives, managers, and players, Keith Law analyzes baseball’s biggest decision making successes and failures, looking at how gambles and calculated risks of all sizes and scales have shaped the sport, and how the game’s ongoing data revolution is rewriting decades of accepted decision making. In the process, he explores questions that have long been debated, from whether throwing harder really increases a player’s risk of serious injury to whether teams actually “overvalue” trade prospects. Bringing his analytical and combative style to some of baseball’s longest running debates, Law deepens our knowledge of the sport in this entertaining work that is both fun and deeply informative."
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