Teaching Statistics Using Baseball By Jim Albert
2017 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 1939512166 | PDF | 14 MB
Teaching Statistics Using Baseball is a collection of case studies and exercises applying statistical and probabilistic thinking to the game of baseball. Baseball is the most statistical of all sports since players are identified and evaluated by their corresponding hitting and pitching statistics. There is an active effort by people in the baseball community to learn more about baseball performance and strategy by the use of statistics. This book illustrates basic methods of data analysis and probability models by means of baseball statistics collected on players and teams. Students often have difficulty learning statistics ideas since they are explained using examples that are foreign to the students. The idea of the book is to describe statistical thinking in a context (that is, baseball) that will be familiar and interesting to students. The book is organized using a same structure as most introductory statistics texts. There are chapters on the analysis on a single batch of data, followed with chapters on comparing batches of data and relationships. There are chapters on probability models and on statistical inference. The book can be used as the framework for a one-semester introductory statistics class focused on baseball or sports. This type of class has been taught at Bowling Green State University. It may be very suitable for a statistics class for students with sports-related majors, such as sports management or sports medicine. Alternately, the book can be used as a resource for instructors who wish to infuse their present course in probability or statistics with applications from baseball. The second edition of Teaching Statistics follows the same structure as the first edition, where the case studies and exercises have been replaced by modern players and teams, and the new types of baseball data from the PitchFX system and fangraphs.com are incorporated into the text.

Jim Vitti, "Chicago Cubs: Baseball on Catalina Island"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0738577952, 1531651577 | EPUB | pages: 127 | 32.3 mb
The world of sports in the earlier decades of the 20th century certainly wasn't like the one we know today-it's even wilder.

Alan Maimon, "Rock Solid: My Life in Baseball's Fast Lane"
English | ISBN: 1629374008 | 2017 | 272 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
For more than a decade, Tim Raines patrolled left field for the nascent Montreal Expos, igniting the powder keg of what would become one of the most innovative, entertaining, and talented teams of the modern era. Raines, nicknamed "Rock," hit and stole his way into the hearts of baseball fans across North America. The seven-time all-star tore through the Expos record books before moving on to the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and Florida Marlins, ultimately earning three World Series rings. And now Raines sit on the cusp of entering Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. But it wasn't always easy playing for the upstart Montreal Expos or being Tim Raines. Raines' performance dipped in 1982, and at the end of the season, Raines entered treatment for substance abuse for cocaine addiction. To avoid leaving the drug in his locker, Raines would carry it in his hip pocket, and would slide headfirst when stealing bases. He used cocaine before games, in his car, after games, and on some occasions between innings in the clubhouse. Raines would later testify at the infamous Pittsburgh drug trials, in September 1985, and would ultimately resume his career at a high level and once again become one of baseball's brightest stars, on and off the field. This memoir entails the life and playing career of one of the sport's all-time greatest leaders and personalities, an honest, raw, and compelling tale of triumph and redemption.

Baseball America – August 2022
English | 54 Pages | PDF | 49.33 MB

Beckett Baseball-September 2022
English | 246 Pages | PDF | 15.3 MB

Baseball AmericAugust 2022 USA
English | 52 Pages | PDF | 7.47 MB

Beckett Baseball – September 2022
English | 246 Pages | PDF | 15.3 MB

Ron Shelton, "The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 059331977X | 256 pages | EPUB | 6.3 MB
From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking.

Bill Madden, "Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0061690325, 0061690317 | EPUB | pages: 496 | 4.8 mb
If you love the New York Yankees, arguably the most storied franchise in all of sports-or even if you're just a fan of baseball history, or big business bios-this biography of the larger-than-life team owner for the past four decades is a must for your bookshelf. For more than 30 years Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News, and he brings all his insights and inside connections to Steinbrenner: the definitive biography of one of New York's most intriguing and long-standing sports figures, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

Mookie Wilson, Erik Sherman, Keith Hernandez, "Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0425271323, 0425271331 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 5.9 mb
They said it was the ?Curse of the Bambino.? They said ?the bad guys won.? Now one of baseball?s all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie Wilson, tells his side of the story?from the ground ball through Bill Buckner?s legs that capped the miraculous 1986 World Series Game Six rally against the Boston Red Sox to the rise and fall of a team that boasted such outsize personalities as Darryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Lenny Dykstra, and Davey Johnson.Growing up in rural South Carolina in the 1960s, Mookie took to heart the lessons of his father, a diligent sharecropper who believed in the abiding power of faith?and taught his son the game that would change his life.When Mookie landed in Shea Stadium in 1980, the Mets were a perennial cellar-dweller overshadowed by the crosstown Yankees. But inspired by Mookie?s legendary hustle, they would soon become the toast of New York. And even when their off-field antics?made famous by a contingency of the team ca