State of Play: The Old School Guide to New School Baseball

by Bill Ripken

Book Overview

Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case.

America's favorite pastime is undergoing an operations-to-field transformation. In recent years, the sabermetrics and analytics craze has infiltrated Major League Baseball--from its front offices to dugouts to clubhouses to media covering both, inciting a baseball culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635766591
• ISBN13: 9781635766592
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"