John Rocker was pretty bad. And their name/uniform/tomahawk chop is considered
offensvie by
some. But before Hank Aaron, or even Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run with the Braves, there was the
miracle team of 1914. Their secret? A lucky (not-at-all-racist)
swastika.
posted by ericbop
on Apr 6, 2010 -
34 comments
(As any Mets geek might say when talking to Mike & the Mad Dog: First time [MeFi] poster, long time reader)Underestimating the Fog...No, not crochety ol'
McNamara's take on the situation in
Iraq. Rather, it's an astonishing (if only partial)
recanting [.pdf] by the patron saint of
statheads,
seamheads, and
rotogeeks everywhere,
Bill James. Like his namesake, James is a
radical empiricist, the Jedi master who defined
sabermetrics (his coinage) as "the search for
objective knowledge about
baseball."
Over the past several decades, James' influence has been enormous. After
Michael Lewis famously detailed the saber-success of Billy Beane's Oakland A's, Sabermetric-leaning analysts have made their way into the scouting ranks and GM's offices of a
growing number of major league ballclubs. From the halls of
academia [.pdf] to
newspapers and
Cable personalities, even the
NFL and
NBA are on board!
posted by ericbop
on May 27, 2005 -
22 comments
