Percentage Baseball - Table of Contents

March 1966
6 x 9, 432 pp.
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From The MIT Press Classics Series:
Percentage Baseball
Earnshaw Cook

	Foreword Sample Chapter - Download PDF (628 KB)	x

1	Baseball and the Laws of Chance Sample Chapter - Download PDF (898 KB)	1

2	The Winning of Games	7

3	Resilience of the Baseball	22

4	Elementary Probability Theory and the Game of Baseball	38

5	The Empirical Equations of Baseball	61

6	Tactical Variations of Play: The Stolen Base	73

7	The Sacrifice and Squeeze Plays	80

8	The Intentional Base on Balls	85

9	The Hit-and-Run Play	91

10	The Art of Pitching	96

11	The Theory and Practice of Batting	130

12	The Home Run Derby	155

13	Relation of Power Factor, Fence Distance and Resilience of Ball to Home Run Production	162

14	The Evaluation of Players	172

15	The Platoon System: Rating the Manager	183

16	Seasonal Patterns of Team Play	199

17	General Patterns of Team Play	211

18	The World Series Myth	250

19	The Great Offensive Players of Baseball	277

20	Ancient vs. Modern Baseball	288

21	The Last Inning	292

	Appendix	317

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (622 KB)	413

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