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Author: Gabriel B. Costa

📘 Understanding sabermetrics by Gabriel B. Costa

"Numbers and baseball go together like America and apple pie. Sabermetrics, defined as the "search for objective knowledge about baseball" and "the mathematical and statistical analysis of baseball records" by noted author Bill James who coined the term, has become perhaps the most important baseball evaluation tool available to researchers. This book is a Sabermetrics primer"--Provided by publisher.

First publish date: 2007

Authors: Gabriel B. Costa

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