Scouting and Scoring
How We Know What We Know About Baseball
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: vii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor in order to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players.
Subjects:
Baseball -- Decision making -- History.
Baseball players -- Selection and appointment -- History.
Baseball -- Scouting -- History.
Baseball -- Scorekeeping -- History.
Baseball -- Decision making -- History.
Baseball players -- Selection and appointment -- History.
Baseball -- Scouting -- History.
Baseball -- Scorekeeping -- History.
ISBN:
0691180210
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SPORTS Baseball Phi | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index.