The New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan - Softcover

Guzzo, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087946318X ISBN 13: 9780879463182

Publisher: ACTA Publications, 2007

Synopsis

As the use of statistics becomes ever more popular in baseball, both in analysis from evening sports shows and among everyday fans, this book provides a user-friendly explanation of the increasingly complex statistics used in the game. It includes a historical breakdown of statistics, definitions of all the stats currently used in baseball, practical uses of stats, and a discussion of the future of statistics in baseball.

About this title

About the Author

Glenn Guzzo, former editor of The Denver Post and executive sports editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, lives in Florida with his wife Donna and their daughter Scheherazade. He is also the author of Strat-O-Matic Fanatics: The Unlikely Success Story of a Game That Became an American Passion.

Edition details

• Publisher: ACTA Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087946318X
• ISBN 13: 9780879463182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 167