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The Numbers Game: Available Copies
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312322229
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (2004)
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale) (Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $4.72
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TOTAL Cost: $4.72
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312322229
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (2004)
Seller: ZBK Books (Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.15
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TOTAL Cost: $5.15
Fast & Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: Greenworld Books (arlington, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $5.36
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TOTAL Cost: $5.36
Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: Greenworld Books (arlington, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.36
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $5.36
Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312322229
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (2004)
Seller: Greenworld Books (arlington, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.74
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $5.74
Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312322229
Publisher: St Martin's Press (2004)
Seller: World of Books Inc (Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.72
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $6.72
Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the national pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a by-product of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s. They couldn't be more wrong. In this award-winning book, Alan Schwarz - whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls one of today's best baseball journalists - provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics, showing how baseball and its numbers have been inseparable ever since the pastime's birth in 1845. He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most: Henry Chadwick, the 19th-century writer who invented the first box score and harped endlessly about which statistics mattered and which did not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's right-hand numbers man with the late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, a scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who retired to pursue inventing the perfect baseball statistic; John Dewan, a former Strat-O-Matic maven who built STATS Inc. into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse for statistics over the Internet; and dozens more. Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics, but of the soul of the sport itself. Named as ESPN's 2004 Baseball Book of the Year, The Numbers Game will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books.
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The Numbers Game : Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2005)
Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.73
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TOTAL Cost: $6.73
Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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The Numbers Game : Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312322229
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2004)
Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.91
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TOTAL Cost: $6.91
Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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The Numbers Game : Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312322229
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2004)
Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.91
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $6.91
Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: World of Books Inc (Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $6.95
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $6.95
The Numbers Game is the first-ever history of baseball statistics - the keeping of them, the study of them, the people who devised them, the cultural phenomenon of them, from 1845 until today. Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the National Pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a byproduct of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s. They couldn't be more wrong. In this unprecedented new book, Alan Schwarz - whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls "one of today's best baseball journalists" - provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics, showing how baseball and its numbers have been inseparable ever since the pastime's birth in 1845. He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most: Henry Chadwick, the 19th-century writer who invented the first box score and harped endlessly about which statistics mattered and which did not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's right-hand numbers man with the late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, a scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who retired to pursue inventing the perfect baseball statistic; John Dewan, a former Strat-O-Matic maven who built STATS Inc. into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse for statistics over the Internet; and dozens more. Almost every baseball fan for 150 years has been drawn to the game by its statistics, whether through newspaper box scores, the backs of Topps baseball cards, The Baseball Encyclopedia, or fantasy leagues. Today's most ardent stat scientists, known as "sabermetricians," spend hundreds of hours coming up with new ways to capture the game in numbers, and engage in holy wars over which statistics are best. Some of these men--and women --are even being hired by major league teams to bring an understanding of statistics to a sport that for so long shunned it. Taken together, Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics, but of the soul of the sport itself. The Numbers Game will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: World of Books Inc (Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.95
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $6.95
The Numbers Game is the first-ever history of baseball statistics - the keeping of them, the study of them, the people who devised them, the cultural phenomenon of them, from 1845 until today. Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the National Pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a byproduct of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s. They couldn't be more wrong. In this unprecedented new book, Alan Schwarz - whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls "one of today's best baseball journalists" - provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics, showing how baseball and its numbers have been inseparable ever since the pastime's birth in 1845. He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most: Henry Chadwick, the 19th-century writer who invented the first box score and harped endlessly about which statistics mattered and which did not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's right-hand numbers man with the late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, a scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who retired to pursue inventing the perfect baseball statistic; John Dewan, a former Strat-O-Matic maven who built STATS Inc. into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse for statistics over the Internet; and dozens more. Almost every baseball fan for 150 years has been drawn to the game by its statistics, whether through newspaper box scores, the backs of Topps baseball cards, The Baseball Encyclopedia, or fantasy leagues. Today's most ardent stat scientists, known as "sabermetricians," spend hundreds of hours coming up with new ways to capture the game in numbers, and engage in holy wars over which statistics are best. Some of these men--and women --are even being hired by major league teams to bring an understanding of statistics to a sport that for so long shunned it. Taken together, Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics, but of the soul of the sport itself. The Numbers Game will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books.
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The Numbers Game by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: Wonder Book (Frederick, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.99
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TOTAL Cost: $6.99
Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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The Numbers Game by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: Wonder Book (Frederick, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.99
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TOTAL Cost: $6.99
Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: Goodwill (Brooklyn Park, MN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $3.56
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $7.55
All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may be missing bundled media.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: WeBuyBooks (Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $1.38
Shipping: $7.44
TOTAL Cost: $8.82
Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.19
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $8.94
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Schwarz, Alan
Paperback
ISBN: 9780312322236
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2005)
Seller: Half Price Books Inc. (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.19
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $8.94
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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