Isbn: 9780025107748 - the politics of glory: how baseball's hall of fame really works (12 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: very good, good. First Printing. 25 cm, 452, tables, index, small tear in rear DJ. Using the endless battle over Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto as a recurring theme, the author analyzes the perennial debate over Hall of Fame qualifications: players who should be in, and aren't, as well as players who shouldn't be, and are.…

Zustand: very good, very good. First Printing. 25 cm, 452, tables, index. Using the endless battle over Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto as a recurring theme, the author analyzes the perennial debate over Hall of Fame qualifications: players who should be in, and aren't, as well as players who shouldn't be, and are.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. x, [2], 452 pages. Includes Acknowledgments and Index. Topics covered include Hundreds of Visitors a Year; 76 Trombones; Cacophony and Confusion; So, Whadda We Do Now?; Institutional History--the Hall of Fame in the 1940s and 1950s; The Little Man Who Isn't There; Methods--Introduction and Justification; Drysdale and Pappas; Similarity Scores; Myer and Herman; arguments; Gordon and Doerr; Institutional History--the Hall of Fame in the 1960s and 1970s; Hall of Fame Standards; The Negro Leaguers; Tinker and Davis; Priddy and Rizzuto; The Time Line; Overview; Catfish and Luis; Fibonacci Win Points; The Keltner List; What Is the Hall of Fame?; Institutional History--the Hall of Fame since 1980; Stephens and Rizzuto; Round-Up; Charlie Hustle and Shoeless Joe; Active Players; In a Better World; Reese and Rizzuto; Don Drysdale; The Scooter. George William James (born October 5, 1949) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world.[2] He was most recently a senior advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. The author takes a hard look at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York--not only at the traditional questions of who is in and who is out and why, but at how the Hall of Fame operates, who operates it, how they make decisions, and why those decisions sometimes go awry. Using the endless battle over onetime Yankee shortstop--and new Hall of Famer--Phil Rizzuto as a recurring theme, James analyzes the perennial debate over Hall of Fame qualifications: Players who should be in, and arn't, as well as players who shouldn't be, and are. Throughout the book James expresses considerable disapproval of the election process, mainly because of the imperfectly defined standards and club-like Veterans Committee which, particularly in its early years, allowed players of suspect qualifications entrance into the Hall of Fame. As a solution, he describes an alternative voting system that would consist of five panels-one each for the media, the fans, the players, baseball executives and professionals, and what he calls "baseball scholars". Each panel would be able to nominate players individually, but for election a player would need the approval of four out of the five panels. While none of his suggestions has been implemented, many of his ratings systems have stuck as legitimate metrics for measuring a career and for judging the chances of a player making it into the Hall of Fame. Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?: Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory is a book by baseball sabermetrician and author Bill James. Originally published in 1994 as The Politics of Glory, the book covers the unique history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, the evolution of its standards, and arguments for individual players in a typically Jamesian, stat-driven manner. James drives home early on the heated and biased nature of Hall of Fame arguments between fans and writers alike. He states that his goal is not to serve individual players or candidates but to "reinforce the truth in what other people say" and to "serve the argument itself." James primarily uses five of his own statistical methods for his justifications: Similarity scores. Used to compare two particular players, which is useful (for example) in verifying if Player A, who is not in the Hall, is truly similar to Player B, who is. The Hall of Fame Standards List. First introduced in this book, the Career Standards List is a series of 100 questions that measures objective accomplishment that might be expected of a Hall of Fame caliber player (for example, Did he have 3,000 hits? Did he hit .300?), with the average Hall of Famer answering yes to 50. The highest all-time score for a player is 84 by Christy Mathewson; the highest for a player spending most of his career at a non-pitching position is 78 by Babe Ruth. The Black Ink Test. A system of measuring the league-leading statistical performances of a certain player. The name refers to the fact that these accomplishments are traditionally shown in boldface type in baseball encyclopedias. The Hall of Fame Career Monitor. A method for predicting whether a player will be elected to the Hall of Fame, particularly useful when discussing active players and candidates, as well as some who have been overlooked in the past. A score of 100 gives the player a good chance of selection while a 130 should guarantee selection. Fibonacci Win Scores. Another new method, used primarily for pitchers, that combines the three measures of pitching achievement (winning percentage, win total, and games over .500) into a single measurement. Good (small tears and chips to dust jacket).…

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