Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball

Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball
Author: Tom Thress
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-08-23
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476629234

Baseball analysts often criticize pitcher win-loss records as a poor measure of pitcher performance, as wins are the product of team performance. Fans criticize WAR (Wins Above Replacement) because it takes in theoretical rather than actual wins. Player won-lost records bridge the gap between these two schools of thought, giving credit to all players for what they do--without credit or blame for teammates' performance--and measuring contributions to actual team wins and losses. The result is a statistic of player value that quantifies all aspects of individual performance, allowing for robust comparisons between players across different positions and different seasons. Using play-by-play data, this book examines players' won-lost records in Major League Baseball from 1930 through 2015.

Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball

Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball
Author: Tom Thress
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476670242

Baseball analysts often criticize pitcher win-loss records as a poor measure of pitcher performance, as wins are the product of team performance. Fans criticize WAR (Wins Above Replacement) because it takes in theoretical rather than actual wins. Player won-lost records bridge the gap between these two schools of thought, giving credit to all players for what they do--without credit or blame for teammates' performance--and measuring contributions to actual team wins and losses. The result is a statistic of player value that quantifies all aspects of individual performance, allowing for robust comparisons between players across different positions and different seasons. Using play-by-play data, this book examines players' won-lost records in Major League Baseball from 1930 through 2015.

Player Win Averages

Player Win Averages
Author: Eldon G. Mills
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1970
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: 150 Players, 50 Years

Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: 150 Players, 50 Years
Author: Tom Thress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2018-04-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980850526

Tom Thress's Baseball Player Won-Lost records do what no other statistic does: credit players for their contributions to actual team wins and losses game by game and play by play. In this book, Thress uses his statistic to identify 150 key players from the first 50 seasons since major-league expansion (1961 - 2010). He shares fun facts about these players' careers, looks at what made them elite players, and introduces you to what he hopes will some day be the definitive baseball statistic: Baseball Player won-lost records.

Baseball's Comeback Players

Baseball's Comeback Players
Author: Rick Swaine
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-03-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476614350

This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. Details of each comeback is provided along with a summary of the player's career. The comeback players range from Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Stan Musial; to near-greats like Tommy John and Luis Tiant; to journeyman performers like George McQuinn and Tony Cuccinello. In the absence of statistical standards to evaluate or even define comebacks, the selection of the top comeback players was based on the following criteria: historical significance, uniqueness, dramatic content, degree of difficulty, and the player's overall reputation and standing.

Baseball in the Classroom

Baseball in the Classroom
Author: Edward J. Rielly
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2014-09-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786481528

As scholarly interest in baseball has increased in recent years, so too has the use of baseball both as subject and as teaching method in college courses. In addition to lecturing on baseball history, professors are more frequently using baseball as a pedagogical tool to teach other disciplines. Baseball's interdisciplinary appeal is evident in the myriad ways that diverse college faculty have made use of it in the classroom. In this collection of essays, professors from different disciplines explain how they have used baseball in higher education. Organized by academic field, essays offer insight into how baseball can help teach key issues in archival research, business, cultural studies, education, experiential learning, film, American history, labor relations, law, literature, Native American studies, philosophy, public speaking, race studies and social history.

The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records

The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records
Author: Major League Baseball
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0771057350

Since the first pitch was thrown, MLB has tracked the performance of every team and player, documented every hit and measured every home run. And while some plays are part of the everyday game, there are moments in baseball when a player's performance reaches a new level of greatness and new records are made. The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records catalogs the game's most remarkable achievements, as well as some of the less traditional and quirky stats that all play a part in the game. MLB's team of in-house writers, researchers and historians have scoured the history of the game and written the most accurate, complete and definitive record of baseball stats and achievements. Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records documents the absolute best of the best and packs each achievement into this lavishly illustrated book where fans will be treated to never-before-seen photographs of their favourite players. Double-page spreads will show Henderson racing to second base to claim the stolen base record, while another full color spread celebrates Bond's crushing hit that set a new threshold for most home-runs. All the records are here, each with an account of events and spectacular photographs that make this truly the most spectacular baseball book ever published.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts

The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 970
Release: 1909
Genre: Almanacs
ISBN:

Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.

From Ritual to Record

From Ritual to Record
Author: Allen Guttmann
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2004-08-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0231517076

Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.