Baseballs All Time Best Sluggers

Author : Michael J. Schell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881358
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball’s All-Time Best Sluggers written by Michael J. Schell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring? (1) Which player would lose the most home runs after adjustments for ballpark effect? (2) Which player claims four of the top five places for best individual seasons ever played, based on all-around offensive performance? (3) (See answers, below). These are only three of the intriguing questions Michael Schell addresses in Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers, a lively examination of the game of baseball using the most sophisticated statistical tools available. The book provides an in-depth evaluation of every major offensive event in baseball history, and identifies the players with the 100 best seasons and most productive careers. For the first time ever, ballpark effects across baseball history are presented for doubles, triples, right- and left-handed home-run hitting, and strikeouts. The book culminates with a ranking of the game's best all-around batters. Using a brisk conversational style, Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pete Palmer and Bill James, he has analyzed the most important factors impacting the sport, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool from which players are drawn, player aging, and changes in the game that have raised or lowered major-league batting averages. Schell's book finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions, and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. It also provides rankings based on players' positions. For example, Derek Jeter ranks 295th out of 1,140 on the best batters list, but jumps to 103rd in the position-adjusted list, reflecting his offensive prowess among shortstops. Replete with dozens of never-before reported stories and statistics, Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers will forever shape the way baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime. Answers: 1. Coors Field 2. Mel Ott 3. Barry Bonds, 2001–2004 seasons

Author : Michael J. Schell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691004556
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's All-time Best Hitters written by Michael J. Schell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feast of stories and statistics about players, ballparks, and teams--all arranged so that calculations can be skipped by general readers but consulted by statisticians eager to follow Schell's methods or to introduce students to the basic concepts of statistics. Illustrations.

Author : Michael J. Schell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400850630
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters written by Michael J. Schell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That's the conclusion of this engaging and provocative analysis of baseball's all-time best hitters. Michael Schell challenges the traditional list of all-time hitters, which places Ty Cobb first, Gwynn 16th, and includes just 8 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 that will spark debate among baseball fans and statisticians everywhere. Schell combines the two qualifications essential for a book like this. He is a professional statistician--applying his skills to cancer research--and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball. He has wondered how to rank hitters since he was a boy growing up as a passionate Cincinnati Reds fan. Over the years, he has analyzed the most important factors, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool that players are drawn from, and changes in the game that raised or lowered major-league batting averages (the introduction of the designated hitter and changes in the height and location of the pitcher's mound, for example). Schell's study finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. His final ranking of players differs dramatically from the traditional list. Gwynn, for example, bumps Cobb to 2nd place, Rod Carew rises from 28th to 3rd, Babe Ruth drops from 9th to 16th, and Willie Mays comes from off the list to rank 13th. Schell's list also gives relatively more credit to modern players, containing 39 whose best days were after 1960. Using a fun, conversational style, the book presents a feast of stories and statistics about players, ballparks, and teams--all arranged so that calculations can be skipped by general readers but consulted by statisticians eager to follow Schell's methods or introduce their students to such basic concepts as mean, histogram, standard deviation, p-value, and regression. Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters will shake up how baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime.

Author : Chris W. Sehnert
Publisher : Abdo & Daughters
ISBN 13 : 9781562397975
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Top 10 Sluggers written by Chris W. Sehnert and published by Abdo & Daughters. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the careers and statistics of ten notable baseball players, including Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Roberto Clemente.

Author : Bill Libby
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394825380
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Greatest Sluggers written by Bill Libby and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of five home run heroes: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams and Willie Mays.

Author : Bill Jenkinson
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs written by Bill Jenkinson and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruth's amazing batting power, sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe, one of the country's most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruth's 1921 season, in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today's ballparks and under today's rules. Yet, 1921 is just tip of the iceberg, for Jenkinson's research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history, and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.

Author : Roy Kerr
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606188
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Dan Brouthers written by Roy Kerr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as "the Greatest Batsman in the Country" by sportswriters of his era, Dennis "Big Dan" Brouthers compiled a .342 batting average, tying with Babe Ruth for ninth place all-time, and slugged 205 triples, eighth all time, in 16 major league seasons. He won five batting and on-base percentage titles, and seven slugging titles, and was the first player to win batting and slugging crowns in successive years. Although he ranked fourth among nineteenth-century home run hitters, many fair balls he hit into the stands or over the fence were counted only as doubles or triples due to local ground rules. Brouthers was extremely difficult to strike out--in 1889, for example, he did so just six times in 565 plate appearances. He was the first player to be walked intentionally on a regular basis. This comprehensive biography of Dan Brouthers examines his life and career from his youth as an apprentice in a print and dye factory to his final years as an attendant at the Polo Grounds. It corrects numerous errors that have crept into earlier accounts of his life, and clarifies his position as one of the greatest hitters ever to play the game.

Author : D. W. Crisfield
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780471197720
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisville Slugger Book of Great Hitters written by D. W. Crisfield and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1998-02-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged profiles of 100 of the greatest sluggers of all time including for each a photograph, career statistics, and other facts.

Author : Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher : Black Rabbit Books/Bolt
ISBN 13 : 9781680720587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Sluggers written by Megan Cooley Peterson and published by Black Rabbit Books/Bolt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trex was strong and deadly. Babe Ruth is a baseball legend. But were they the strongest and best? Open the book, and see how your favorites rank. The results just might surprise you. Book jacket.

Author : George Sullivan
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689315664
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Sluggers written by George Sullivan and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles twenty-seven of the greatest sluggers of all time. Includes Sam Crawford, Joe DiMaggio, Reggie Jackson, and Jose Canseco.