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Lindbergh, Ben.
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Sonoma Stompers (Baseball team)
Baseball teams -- California -- Sonoma.
Baseball -- Management.
Baseball -- Statistical methods.
Baseball -- Mathematical models.
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Lindbergh, Ben.
Sonoma Stompers (Baseball team)
Baseball teams -- California -- Sonoma.
Baseball -- Management.
Baseball -- Statistical methods.
Baseball -- Mathematical models.
MARC Display
The only rule is it has to work : our wild experiment building a new kind of
baseball
team
/ Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller.
by
Lindbergh, Ben.
Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Call #:
796.3576 L742o
Subjects
Sonoma
Stompers
(
Baseball
team
)
Baseball
teams -- California --
Sonoma
.
Baseball
-- Management.
Baseball
-- Statistical methods.
Baseball
-- Mathematical models.
ISBN:
9781627795647 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Not Joking at All --
Sonoma
Dreaming -- Modern
Baseball
-- Tryouts -- Spreadsheet Guys -- No Feel -- Taking the Field -- Technical Difficulties -- Breaking Barriers -- Fehball -- Pulling the Trigger -- Evidences -- Sands of Time -- Burn the Ships -- It Is High, It Is Far....
Summary:
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional
baseball
team
? The ultimate in fantasy
baseball
: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies - with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That's what
baseball
analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent professional minor-league
team
in California, the
Sonoma
Stompers
, offered them the chance to run its
baseball
operations according to the most advanced statistics. We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a
team
, following one cardinal rule for judging each innovation they try: it has to work. We meet colorful figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first openly gay player in professional
baseball
. Even José Canseco makes a cameo appearance. Will their knowledge of numbers help Lindbergh and Miller bring the
Stompers
a championship, or will they fall on their faces? Will the players attract the attention of big-league scouts, or are they on a fast track to oblivion? Lindbergh and Miller prove that you don't need a bat or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.
Other authors:
Miller, Sam (Sportswriter)
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
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