... a smart and energetic collection of essays on baseball statistics. Curve Ball doesn't play misty-eyed homage to
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Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he’d honed on baseball into electoral gold,
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Take a time machine back to the days of pre-industrial America and you’ll see youths, both in the city and in the countr
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