Bill James
Author
Publisher
ACTA Sports, a division of ACTA Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Sabermetrics has a mixed reputation in the outside world. In mainstream sportswriting, it's sometimes seen as something real sportswriters don't need because they see all the games and know all the players. In academia, it's not always respected as serious research, because it often doesn't fit into any specific established discipline (although economists are starting to get involved), because it often doesn't use enough fancy math, and because it's...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
"Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together, faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous Villisca, Iowa murders, received national attention. But few people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to a train...