Baseball′s All–Time Best Hitters – How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field - Hardcover

Schell, Michael J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691004552 ISBN 13: 9780691004556

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That is the conclusion of this text - an analysis of baseball's all-time best hitters. Author Michael Schell challenges the traditional list of all-time hitters, which places Ty Cobb first, Gwynn 16th, and includes just eight players whose prime came after 1960. Schell argues that the raw batting averages used as the list's basis should be adjusted to take into account that hitters played in different eras, with different rules, and in different ballparks. He makes those adjustments and produces a new list of the best 100 hitters.

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About the Author

Michael Schell is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Biostatistics Core Facility at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the author of Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs (Princeton) and has published more than 100 research articles on statistics and cancer.

From the Back Cover

"This is a provocative new look at baseball's best hitters, using a sound statistical approach. It's a `must read' for anyone who loves our national pastime."--Pete Palmer, coauthor ofTotal Baseball and The Hidden Game of Baseball.

"This book makes a significant contribution to baseball statistics and will also have the side-effect of getting readers interested in statistical reasoning and in how statistics can be used to clarify comparisons."--Carl Morris, Harvard University

From the Inside Flap

"This is a provocative new look at baseball's best hitters, using a sound statistical approach. It's a `must read' for anyone who loves our national pastime."--Pete Palmer, coauthor of Total Baseball and The Hidden Game of Baseball.

"This book makes a significant contribution to baseball statistics and will also have the side-effect of getting readers interested in statistical reasoning and in how statistics can be used to clarify comparisons."--Carl Morris, Harvard University

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691004552
• ISBN 13: 9780691004556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318