This will not be new to those who've read the Alan Schwarz history of stats book, but the LIFE article on GoogleBooks is cool:
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/9/15/2426697/stats-moneyball-movie-branch-rickey-constipation
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, I need to read that LIFE article. Is Schwarz's book any good?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:51 (fourteen years ago)
best of its kind (even tho I'm not sure there IS another of its kind).
also, I'm pretty sure Schwarz made it clear that the Rickey article was ghosted by this guy:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Allan_Roth
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:58 (fourteen years ago)
James always credited Rickey with early stat analysis. Here's another article with Rickey's 20 greatest hitters ever according to his formula:
http://captnsblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/was-branch-rickey-the-father-of-sabermetrics/
(But I didn't know it wasn't his work...)
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 September 2011 17:02 (fourteen years ago)