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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Lindbergh, Ben.     Subjects     Sonoma Stompers (Baseball team)     Baseball teams -- California -- Sonoma.     Baseball -- Management.     Baseball -- Statistical methods.     Baseball -- Mathematical models.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lindbergh, Ben.       by title:      The only rule is it ...       by call number:      796.3576 L742o     Search the Web     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) Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.3576 L742o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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