Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters : : How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field /

Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters : : How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field / / Michael J. Schell.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Schell, Michael J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©1999
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 12 halftones. 39 line illus. 69 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Technical notes
  • Preface
  • Introduction: In the Dugout
  • PART I. The Method
  • 1. On Deck with the Qualifying Players
  • 2. First Base — Adjusting for Late Career Declines
  • 3. Second Base — Adjusting for Hitting Feasts and Famines
  • 4. Third Base — Adjusting for League Batting Talent
  • 5. Home Adjusting for Ballpark
  • PART II. The Findings
  • 6. The Adjusted Top 100 Hitters
  • 7. Top Hitters by Position
  • 8. Best Single-Season Batting Averages
  • 9. The Ballparks
  • 10. On Base Percentage
  • 11. On Base Percentage
  • 12. Where Would the Current Stars Rank?
  • AFTERWORD: Post-Game Wrap-Up
  • APPENDIX I. Abbreviations and Glossary
  • APPENDIX II. Right- vs. Left-Handed Hitting
  • APPENDIX III. League Batting Averages
  • APPENDIX IV. Ballpark Effect Batting Averages
  • APPENDIX V. League Base on Balls Averages
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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